Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century EnglandCambridge University Press, 1987 M09 25 - 347 páginas 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. |
Contenido
power grace and money | 6 |
sin death damnation repentance | 21 |
the criminal as sinner turned | 43 |
efforts at | 52 |
recementing | 91 |
the thief as various rogues | 117 |
Smiles serious thoughts and things beyond | 125 |
fear guilt and the value | 149 |
the oddity | 174 |
Postscript Criminal biography and the novel | 194 |
The politics of thieving | 209 |
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Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late ... Lincoln B. Faller,Lincoln Bruce Faller Sin vista previa disponible - 1987 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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