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Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good +. First American Edition, 1st Printing. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6". vi, 248pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Focusing on a series of notorious cases, the author shows how French society created and sustained a complex series of conventions and assumptions about crimes of passion: who committed such crimes, why they were committed and how the guilty should be punished. Guillais examines how society, and above all the legal, political and medical authorities tried to make sense of crimes of passion. Frequently such crimes were seen as part of the breakdown in the fabric of society after the events of the Commune, and the fear of this disintegration was fed by writers such as Zola, the popular press and the pronouncements of the Church. These attitudes emerge, the author argues, in the behaviour of the men and women involved in the cases. Their letters, suicide notes and courtroom confessions, which Guillais documents in detail, demonstrate an inexorable dramatization of the roles of lover, mistress and wronged husband. The adulteresses and murderers became simultaneously heroes and victims, blaming society for their crimes. And thus society itself, showing a mixture of condemnation and prurient fascination with these crimes, was put on trial.(Publisher).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 3rd. 248pp.incl.index; HB blk.w/silver; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ blk.w/white-pic.cover; slight rub. "Focusing on a series of notorious cases, the author shows how French society created and sustained a complex series of conventions and assumptions about crimes of passion. " isbn 0415903904.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. new edition edition. 240 pages. 8.82x5.98x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First US Edition. vi, 248pp, index, bibliography, notes. Or black cloth in jacket. Near new. Focusing on a series of notorious cases the author shows how French society created and sustained a complex series of conventions and assumptions about crimes of passion: who committed such crimes, why they were committed and how the guilty should be punished. Examines how society, and the legal, political and medical authorities tried to make sense of crimes of passion. Size: 8vo.…

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Zustand: New. pp. 242 Index.

Zustand: New. pp. 242.

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 242 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. 1st U.S. Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light foxing on text block edges.; 248 pages.

Hardcover. 1st U.S. Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket. Foxing along top/side text block edges.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 2009 Four Courts Press hardcover edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition. Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction - Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Cormac O Cuilleanain & David Parris; Chapter 2: Censorship and self-censorship in translation: ethics and ideology, resistance and collusion - Maria Tymoczko; Chapter 3: Censorship as a collaborative project: a systemic approach - Piotr Kuhiwczak; Chapter 4: Translators, the tacit censors - Elisabeth Gibbels; Chapter 5: Censoring these 'racy morsels of the vernacular': loss and gain in the translation of Apuleius and Catullus - Carol O'Sullivan; Chapter 6: The Petrarch they tried to ban - Eilean Ni Chuilleanain & Deirdre Serjeantson; Chapter 7: Translating under pressure: the censorship of foreign fiction in Italy between the wars - Jane Dunnett; Chapter 8: Pasternak's Hamlet: translation, censorship and indirect communication - Aoife Gallagher; Chapter 9: Censorship in Francoist Spain and the importation of translations from South America: the case of Lawrence Durrell's Justine - Cristina Gomez Castro; Chapter 10: The case of Don Quixote: one hundred years of Portuguese translations - Filipe Alves Machado; Chapter 11: Translation as hagiographical weapon: the French perception of Katherine Mansfield - Gerri Kimber; Chapter 12: More than a childhood revisited? Ideological dimensions in the American and British translations of Astrid Lindgren's Madicken - Angelika Nikolowski-Bogomoloff; Chapter 13: . comme des negres: whitewashed in translation - Cormac O Cuilleanain; Chapter 14: 'Razom nas bagato, nas ne podolati': remixes of the Orange Revolution anthem - Sarah Smyth.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket. No ownership marks. 8vo. 249 pp. Notes; biblio.; index. Translated from the French by Jane Dunnett. Ships fast with tracking.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 568 pages. Italian language. 8.27x5.51x1.30 inches. In Stock.