000890034 000__ 04411cam\a2200637\i\4500 000890034 001__ 890034 000890034 005__ 20210515173510.0 000890034 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000890034 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000890034 008__ 190725s2019\\\\nyu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000890034 010__ $$a 2018051325 000890034 020__ $$a9780231547260$$q(electronic book) 000890034 020__ $$a0231547269$$q(electronic book) 000890034 020__ $$z9780231187428 000890034 020__ $$z0231187424 000890034 035__ $$a(OCoLC)on1060181471 000890034 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1060181471 000890034 035__ $$a890034 000890034 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cDLC$$dOCLCO$$dOCLCF$$dN$T$$dEBLCP$$dJSTOR$$dYDX$$dDEGRU$$dWAU$$dCUV 000890034 0411_ $$aeng$$hfre 000890034 042__ $$apcc 000890034 049__ $$aISEA 000890034 05010 $$aHV6963$$b.K34713 2019eb 000890034 08200 $$a305.5/69091732$$223 000890034 1001_ $$aKalifa, Dominique,$$eauthor. 000890034 24010 $$aBas-fonds.$$lEnglish 000890034 24510 $$aVice, crime and poverty :$$bhow the Western imagination invented the underworld /$$cDominique Kalifa ; translated by Susan Emanuel ; forword by Sarah Maza 000890034 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bColumbia University Press,$$c[2019] 000890034 300__ $$a1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages). 000890034 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000890034 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000890034 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000890034 4901_ $$aEuropean perspectives 000890034 500__ $$aTranslation of: Bas-fonds 000890034 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index 000890034 5050_ $$aIn the den of horror -- Courts of miracles -- "Dangerous classes" -- Empire of lists -- The disguised prince -- The grand dukes' tour -- Poetic flight -- Ebbing of an imaginary -- Slow eclipse of the underworld -- Persistent shadows -- Roots of fascination 000890034 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000890034 520__ $$a"Prostitutes, criminals, and the sordid, dangerous places they inhabit have always been with us. Yet there has not always been an "underworld," or what the French call "les bas-fonds." This expression, which appeared in most western languages in the 19th century, reveals a new way of looking at these social ills and raises a key historical question: why did the century that gave us positivism, industry, democratization, and mass culture name--and thus reframe--its view of its social margins? This book explores this imaginary. It shows how the underworld came into being in the shattered Europe of the 19th century, born of a tradition in which biblical symbols-Sodom, Gomorrah, Babylon-intermingled with the "bad poor" of Christian lore and images of modern roguery like the Cour des Miracles. It decodes the construction of a worldview that has never ceased to fascinate us. For while it connotes things that are real-poverty, crime, and transgressions of all sorts-the "underworld" also constitutes an imaginary that expresses our fears, our anxieties, our desires. In representing the nether regions of our society-its "accursed share" so to speak-it also provides a route of symbolic and social escape. Although many of its components still exist or have been readapted to new contexts, the specific combination that arose in connection with the 19th century underworld gradually faded away in the 20th century. The welfare states established in the wake of the Second World War left very little room for it. And yet, while the contexts have changed, both the debates on issues related to the "underclass" and the images in contemporary cinema and steampunk culture reveal that the shadow of the underworld still lurks all around us"--$$cProvided by publisher 000890034 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record 000890034 650_0 $$aUrban poor$$xHistory. 000890034 650_0 $$aMarginality, Social. 000890034 650_0 $$aMarginality, Social, in literature. 000890034 650_0 $$aCriminals$$xHistory. 000890034 650_0 $$aCriminals in literature. 000890034 650_0 $$aInner cities$$xHistory. 000890034 650_0 $$aCrime$$xHistory. 000890034 650_0 $$aInner cities in literature. 000890034 650_0 $$aSocial representations. 000890034 650_0 $$aDeviant behavior in literature. 000890034 7001_ $$aEmanuel, Susan,$$etranslator. 000890034 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aKalifa, Dominique.$$sBas-fonds. English.$$tVice, crime and poverty.$$dNew York : Columbia University Press, [2019]$$z9780231187428$$w(DLC) 2018042782$$w(OCoLC)1056742065 000890034 830_0 $$aEuropean perspectives. 000890034 852__ $$bcoll 000890034 85280 $$bebk$$hEBSCOhost 000890034 85640 $$3eBooks on EBSCOhost$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2087953$$zOnline Access 000890034 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:890034$$pGLOBAL_SET 000890034 980__ $$aEBOOK 000890034 980__ $$aBIB 000890034 982__ $$aEbook 000890034 983__ $$aOnline 000890034 994__ $$a92$$bISE