Damned reading
Abstract
In the first decades of the 20th century jurists and common people paid attention to two types of crimes against honor: defloration and passional crimes. In both cases literature was considered as partly responsible for them. Passional crimes, described by authors such as Dumas and Stendhal, enjoyed indulgence among jurists and often among members of the jury. This article discusses in what way 19th century fiction writers, such as Flaubert, Queirós, Dumas and others, and essays dealing with the topic of love, sometimes with suggestive titles like “love physiology,” were seen as inducing libidinous behaviors that led to the crime of “seduction.”
Key words: reading, literature, gender, crimes against honor.Downloads
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