In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how the apprehension of crime and criminals was an important factor in the establishment of such key institutions as national systems of education, a cheap daily press, and various welfare measures designed to fight the spread of criminality.

Leps focuses on three discursive practices: the emergence of criminology, the development of a mass-produced press, and the proliferation of crime fiction, in both England and France. Beginning where Foucault's work Discipline and Punish ends, Leps analyzes intertextual modes of knowledge production and shows how the elaboration of hegemonic truths about the criminal is related to the exercise of power. 

The scope of her investigation includes scientific treatises such as Criminal Man by Cesare Lombroso and The English Convict by Charles Goring, reports on the Jack the Ripper murders in The Times and Le Petit Parisien , the Sherlock Holmes stories, Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , and novels by Zola and Bourget.

Apprehending the Criminal: The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Discourse.

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Stepchildren of nature: Krafft-Ebing, psychiatry, and the making of sexual identity.

The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity

This thesis examines Spanish representations of Muslim and Jewish cultures in Morocco during the colonial campaigns in the Rif (1909-1927) in relation to constructions of Spanish identity during this period. It focuses on visual and textual narratives in the press (colonial photojournalism) and on three literary texts: Carmen de Burgos' En la guerra (1909), Ernesto Gimenez Caballero's Notas marruecas de un soldado (1923) and Arturo Barea's La ruta (1943). The analysis undertaken centres on the use of the motifs of the body and the city and references to the medieval Castilian ballad tradition, the Romancero, by writers and photographers to explore the cultural relationship between Spain and North Africa. The chapters explore the delineation of boundaries between Spanish and Moroccan cultures by contemporary commentators and the power structures that underpin those boundaries, considering the different hierarchies that are established in Spain’s relationship with Moroccan Muslims and Jews. Chapter 1 concerns the socio-historical context of the colonial campaigns and highlights the significance of the question of Spain’s identity in relation to Morocco during this period. Chapter 2 compares representations of cultural and ethnic affinity between Spain and Morocco, arguing that beyond merely serving as a tool of colonial domination, they are harnessed in some cases to support the colonial venture, in others to challenge it, and yet in others to explore the pre-modern origins of the Spanish nation. In many of the examples examined, a process of self-Orientalisation is observed, where the 'Orientalist' and colonialist gaze is turned back on Spain as well as on Morocco. Chapter 3 examines representations of Muslim and Jewish alterity, arguing that these assertions of difference reveal Spanish anxieties about non-difference from North Africa, cultural regression, national fragmentation, and Spain's ability to dominate the protectorate. I conclude that these anxieties provide the fundamental underpinning to Spanish constructions of Morocco during the Rif War, and that this self-awareness about non-difference and failures of domination unsettles the predominant paradigm of discourse analysis within colonial studies.

My enemy or my brother? Spanish representations of Muslim and Jewish culture during the colonial campaigns in Morocco, 1909-1927

Philosophy in History: Essays on the Historiography of Philosophy

This special issue, which arises from the 2008 symposium “La mala vida in the Hispanic World”,1 brings together a number of contributions that examine the issues of social deviancy and marginality 

“la mala vida”: source and focus of degeneration, degeneracy and decline

Los discursos higienico-morales burgueses de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX insistieron en que la miseria y la enfermedad que afligian a las clases bajas tenian su origen en su naturalez...

Teresa Fuentes Peris

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“la mala vida”: source and focus of degeneration, degeneracy and decline

Alcoholismo, anarquismo y degeneración en la bodega de vicente blasco ibáñez