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Autore |
Mackie Erin Skye <1959-> |
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Titolo |
Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates : the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century / / Erin Mackie |
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-224) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Synthesizing the histories of masculinity, manners, and radicalism, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century aristocratic male. |
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