Turned to Account

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The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England

Autor: Lincoln B. Faller

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Wydawca: Cambridge University Press

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, widespread fear of criminal assault motivated the publi...

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Autor

Lincoln B. Faller

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

1987

strony

364

EAN

9780521326728

ISBN

0521326729

Enbook ID

02027681

Wydawca

Cambridge University Press

Waga

630

Wymiary

152 x 237 x 23

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, widespread fear of criminal assault motivated the publication of hundreds of pamphlets tracing the lives and misdeeds of London's most notorious rogues. Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. The author has not produced a criminal history, but an intriguing distillation of some 2,000 separate narratives describing the lives, deeds, and dying words of thieves, murderers, and various scoundrels. Lincoln Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote, and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character. He completes his treatment by showing how the pamphlets served to delineate the lines of socially acceptable behaviour. Faller has chosen his examples with skill and economy to produce a comprehensive and interesting work.

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