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Havelock Ellis Collection - The Criminal - Illustrated

Havelock Ellis Collection - The Criminal - Illustrated

Ellis, Havelock

Paperback

Series: Unforgettable Classic

General Law

ISBN10: 1974466132
ISBN13: 9781974466139
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 12 2018
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is a new edition of The Criminal, originally published in 1890 by Scribner & Welford, of New York. Part of Adeptio's Unforgettable Classic Series, this is not a facsimile reprint. Obvious typographical errors have been carefully corrected and the entire text has been reset and redesigned by Adeptio Editions to enhance readability, while respecting the original edition. The Criminal is a remarkable work on criminal anthropology-a new science which arose in Italy in the nineteenth century. Full of fascinating interest, it is one of the very first works on criminology written in English about the scientific study of the criminal. In 1902, the Westminster Review recommended the book saying that as a handbook for legislators, jurists, and prison officials it is of paramount value. In The Criminal, Havelock Ellis arrays his facts in order, providing plenty of data and stating his findings with accuracy when describing the physical, moral, social, emotional and religious aspects, among many others, related to what Cesare Lombroso termed the born criminal, and what Ellis preferred to call the instinctive criminal. The Criminal became one of the main sources researchers seek for information on born or instinctive criminals. The Criminal is considered one of Havelock's masterpieces and helped establish Havelock's reputation throughout the world. About the Author: Havelock Ellis was a social activist, a physician and a psychologist, whose best-known works concern sexuality and criminology. Among his over forty books, in 1890 he published The Criminal, a remarkable work on criminal anthropology. In the same year, he published The New Spirit, a collection of literary essays on Diderot, Heine, Whitman, Ibsen, and Tolstoy, and Ellis's attempt to synthesize science and religious mysticism. In 1898 he wrote Affirmations, which contains essays on Nietzsche, Casanova, Zola, Huysmans, and St. Francis. In 1897, he published Sexual Inversion, the first medical text in English about homosexuality, which he had co-authored with John Addington Symonds in an earlier edition, and which became a part of Ellis's six-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex. In 1922, he published Little Essays of Love and Virtue, which aimed primarily at young people, youths and girls at the period of adolescence, who were in the author's thoughts in all the studies he wrote of sex because he was of that age when he first vaguely planned them. These titles are part of our Unforgettable Classic Series: The Best of Havelock Ellis Collection. Born in Surrey, England, in 1859, Havelock Ellis was considered by the overwhelming majority of critics as the best translator of Germinal, Émile Zola s masterpiece. Ellis was associated with the Decadent movement and with the Lutetian Society, a secret literary society, through which authors and translators like himself were able to provide British readers with translations of works which were often antagonistic to the Victorian ideals of morality-such as some of Émile Zola's controversial novels-aiming at expanding the cultural horizons of the few lucky readers who had access to them. Havelock Ellis died in Suffolk, England, in 1939.

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