TY - BOOK AU - Kalifa,Dominique AU - Emanuel,Susan AU - Maza,Sarah TI - Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld T2 - European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism SN - 9780231187428 AV - HV6963 .K347 2019 U1 - 305.569091732 23 PY - 2019///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - Crime KW - History KW - Criminals in literature KW - Criminals KW - Deviant behavior in literature KW - Inner cities in literature KW - Inner cities KW - Marginality, Social, in literature KW - Marginality, Social KW - Social representations KW - Urban poor KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword --; Introduction --; PART I. The Advent of the Lower Depths --; 1. In the Den of Horror --; 2. Courts of Miracles --; 3. "Dangerous Classes" --; PART II. Scenarios of Society's Underside --; 4. Empire of Lists --; 5. The Disguised Prince --; 6. The Grand Dukes' Tour --; 7. Poetic Flight --; PART III. Ebbing of an Imaginary --; 8. Slow Eclipse of the Underworld --; 9. Persistent Shadows --; 10. Roots of Fascination --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates-part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering the tantalizing promise of escape. Although these images testify to undeniable social realities, the sordid lower depths make up a symbolic and social imaginary that reflects our fears and anxieties-as well as our desires.In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, Dominique Kalifa traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. He examines how the myth of the lower depths came into being in nineteenth-century Europe, as biblical figures and Christian traditions were adapted for a world turned upside-down by the era of industrialization, democratization, and mass culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience. While the social conditions that created that underworld have changed, Vice, Crime, and Poverty shows that, from social-scientific ideas of the underclass to contemporary cinema and steampunk culture, its shadows continue to haunt us UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/kali18742 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231547260 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231547260/original ER -