| Description |
1 online resource (437 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-423) and index. |
| Summary |
This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels. |
| Contents |
Ancestry -- Childhood -- Language -- Sexuality -- Emotion -- Mind -- Society -- Ideas. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Causation in literature.
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Causation in literature. |
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Murder in literature.
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Murder in literature. |
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Causation.
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Causation. |
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Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kern, Stephen. Cultural history of causality. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2004 0691115230 9780691115238 (DLC) 2004044676 (OCoLC)54881756 |
| ISBN |
9781400826230 (electronic book) |
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1400826233 (electronic book) |
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0691115230 (alkaline paper) |
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