Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates : the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century / / Erin Mackie
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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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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