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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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Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/005 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8018-9530-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810354903321 |
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