Turned to Account : the Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England
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. Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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9780511983733, 9780521326728, 9780521065627, 0511983735, 0521326729, 0521065623
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Print version:
Preface; Part I. Turning Criminals to Account: Three Case Histories and Two Myths of Crime: 1. The highwayman: power, grace, and money at command; 2. Familiar murder: sin, death, damnation, repentance, God's grace, and salvation; Part II. Enucleating the Truth: The Criminal as Sinner Turned Saint: 3. In the absence of adequate causes: efforts at an etiology of crime; 4. Heaven seized by sincerity and zeal: justifying God, vindicating man; 5. Love makes all things easy: recementing the social bond; Part III. Palliating His Crimes: The Thief as Various Rogues: 6. Smiles, serious thoughts, and things beyond imagining: a provisional typology of thieves in action; 7. Barbarous levities: fear, guilt, and the value of confusion; 8. Everyone left to his own reflections: the oddity of the highwayman as hero and social critic; Postscript; Appendices; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.
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