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Autore: | Gladfelder Hal |
Titolo: | Criminality and narrative in eighteenth-century England : beyond the law / / Hal Gladfelder |
Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
Disciplina: | 823/.509355 |
Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism |
Crime in literature | |
Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism | |
Literature and society - England - History - 18th century | |
Social classes in literature | |
Criminals in literature | |
Narration (Rhetoric) | |
Law in literature | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Criminal Representations -- Chapter One: Constructing the Underworld -- Chapter Two: Picaresque and Providential Fictions -- Chapter Three: Crime Reports and Gallows Writing -- Chapter Four: Criminal Trials -- Chapter Five: Criminal Biographies -- Part II: Crime and Identity -- Chapter Six: Colonel Jack's Childhood -- Chapter Seven: Moll Flanders and Her Confederates -- Chapter Eight: Guilt and the Reader of Roxana -- Part III: The Judge and the Author -- Chapter Nine: The Politics and Poetics of Crime and Punishment -- Chapter Ten: Fielding as Magistrate -- Chapter Eleven: Amelia -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Crime narratives, he argues, vividly embody the struggles of individuals to define their place in the suddenly unfamiliar world of modernity. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Criminality and narrative in eighteenth-century England |
ISBN: | 0-8018-7565-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910828617503321 |
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