Chapter 2. Catching Conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Greene, and Thomas Dekker

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements vii
3. Contents ix
4. List of Illustrations xi
5. List of Abbreviations xii
6. Chapter 1. Introduction: Tracing the History of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor 1
7. Part I: Creating ‘Criminal Beasts’ in Early Modern Literature and Law
8. Chapter 2. Catching Conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Greene, and Thomas Dekker 41
9. Chapter 3. Richard III’s Animalistic Criminal Body 85
10. Chapter 4. Of a Howling Murderer – The Duke of Malfi 109
11. Chapter 5. Ben Jonson’s Comedies of Gulling Rogues 131
12. Part II: Humanizing Animals and ‘Animalizing’ the Lower Orders during the Long Eighteenth Century
13. Introduction to Part II Eighteenth-Century Changes in the Criminal-Animal Trope 157
14. Chapter 6. Colonialism and the ‘Criminal Beast’ in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels 167
15. Chapter 7. William Hogarth’s The Four Stages of Cruelty – Sympathizing with Animals and Denigrating the Lower Orders as Beasts 189
16. Chapter 8. The Prisoner as Suffering Animal – Caleb Williams’s Revision of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor 217
17. Part III: Reinstating the ‘Criminal Beast’ during the Nineteenth Century
18. Introduction to Part III The Nineteenth Century’s Delineation of the Criminal Class 245
19. Chapter 9. Charles Dickens’s Contradictions 251
20. Chapter 10. The Criminal-Animal Metaphor and Lombrosian Criminology 275
21. Chapter 11. Coda 303
22. Bibliography 315
23. Index 341