Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England : Beyond the Law.
Title:
Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England : Beyond the Law.
Author:
Gladfelder, Hal.
ISBN:
9780801875656
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Criminal Representations -- Chapter One: Constructing the Underworld -- Chapter Two: Picaresque and Providential Fictions -- Chapter Three: Crime Reports and Gallows Writing -- Chapter Four: Criminal Trials -- Chapter Five: Criminal Biographies -- Part II: Crime and Identity -- Chapter Six: Colonel Jack's Childhood -- Chapter Seven: Moll Flanders and Her Confederates -- Chapter Eight: Guilt and the Reader of Roxana -- Part III: The Judge and the Author -- Chapter Nine: The Politics and Poetics of Crime and Punishment -- Chapter Ten: Fielding as Magistrate -- Chapter Eleven: Amelia -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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