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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810354903321

Autore

Mackie Erin Skye <1959->

Titolo

Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates : the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century / / Erin Mackie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8018-9530-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/005

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Masculinity in literature

Literature and society - England - History - 18th century

Libertines in literature

Adventure and adventurers in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Historicizing masculinity: the criminal and the gentleman -- Always making excuses: the rake and criminality -- Romancing the highwayman -- Welcome the outlaw: pirates, maroons, and Caribbean countercultures -- Privacy and ideology: elite male crime in Burney's Evelina and Godwin's Caleb Williams.

Sommario/riassunto

Synthesizing the histories of masculinity, manners, and radicalism, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century aristocratic male.