The courtesan and the gigolo : the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris /
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| Author / Creator: | Freundschuh, Aaron, author. |
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| Imprint: | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017] |
| Description: | 258 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10929275 |
Table of Contents:
- From Widows' Allée to Avenue Montaigne : elite cosmopolitanism and gentrification in western Paris
- The crime scene : gathering the evidence and searching for a motive
- A reporter's ambition : George Grison and the rise of investigative crime reporting in Paris
- The courtesan's objects : sexual danger and the high life of the demimonde
- Colonial picaresque : the trans-Mediterranean investigation of a colonial migrant
- Criminal detection as colonial war by other means : investigative claims on the Latin-American "rastaquouère"
- The trial of a gigolo : intimacy, foreignness, and the Boulangist crisis
- The skin affair : punishment and the colonial body
- Conclusion : on imperial insecurity.
