LEADER 05425nam 22006135 450 001 9910150194503321 005 20231205014400.0 010 $a1-137-41196-1 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-41196-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000942297 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-41196-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4734190 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000942297 100 $a20161107d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aStealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London /$fby Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, Christopher Reid 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 146 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aPalgrave pivot 311 $a1-137-41195-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Courts -- 3. Prisoners -- 4. Prosecutors -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis study offers an authoritative and readable account of the hidden history of book theft in eighteenth-century London. It exploits a rich primary source, the compelling narratives of crime contained in the digitised Proceedings of the Old Bailey. The authors explain how cases of book theft came to court, and how in the ensuing trials the nature of the book itself became a question for legal debate. They assess the motives which led Londoners to steal books and the methods they employed in thefts from households and booksellers. Finally, the authors ask what the Proceedings tells us about the social ownership of books, and how the phenomenon of book theft differently affected book producers and consumers. Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London will appeal to readers interested in the connected histories of metropolitan life, crime, and the book in this period, and in the uses of digital resources in humanities research. Dr Richard Coulton is a lecturer in English Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World (2015, with Markman Ellis and Matthew Mauger), as well as the editor of Tea in Natural History and Medical Writing (2010). Dr Coulton has published journal articles on sociability, natural history, and horticulture in eighteenth-century London. He was previously a Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington D.C.), an institute of Harvard University. Dr Matthew Mauger is a lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. He researches literature of the long-eighteenth century, focusing in particular on how Enlightenment legal debate forms an important context for artistic production in the period. Another aspect of Matthew's research focuses on legal and commercial innovation, mercantile life, and the history of the civic institutions of the City of London. He has published articles on Blake?s legislative architecture, the literature of penal transportation, and the Corporation of London courts. He was the editor of Tea, Commerce and the East India Company (2010), and an author of Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World (2015). Christopher Reid works on eighteenth-century literature and history, with a focus on political writing and oratory in that period. His first book, Edmund Burke and the Practice of Political Writing (1985), examined Burke's rhetoric in the context of contemporary political controversy. In Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection (2000), which he edited with John Mullan, he examined cultural interactions between the elite and popular spheres. His most recent book is Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons 1760-1800 (2012), which looks at speakers, speeches, and their dissemination through print in parliamentary oratory's golden age. 410 0$aPalgrave pivot. 606 $aBooks$xHistory 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y18th century 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aCriminology 606 $aHistory of the Book$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/814000 606 $aEighteenth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/819000 606 $aCultural History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000 606 $aCriminology and Criminal Justice, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B0000 607 $aEngland$zLondon$2fast 615 0$aBooks$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aCriminology. 615 14$aHistory of the Book. 615 24$aEighteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aCriminology and Criminal Justice, general. 676 $a002 700 $aCoulton$b Richard$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01017730 702 $aMauger$b Matthew$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aReid$b Christopher$f1952-$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150194503321 996 $aStealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London$92515554 997 $aUNINA