Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England
Autor Lincoln B. Falleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iun 2008
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521065627
ISBN-10: 0521065623
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0521065623
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface; Part I. Turning Criminals to Account: Three Case Histories and Two Myths of Crime: 1. The highwayman: power, grace, and money at command; 2. Familiar murder: sin, death, damnation, repentance, God's grace, and salvation; Part II. Enucleating the Truth: The Criminal as Sinner Turned Saint: 3. In the absence of adequate causes: efforts at an etiology of crime; 4. Heaven seized by sincerity and zeal: justifying God, vindicating man; 5. Love makes all things easy: recementing the social bond; Part III. Palliating His Crimes: The Thief as Various Rogues: 6. Smiles, serious thoughts, and things beyond imagining: a provisional typology of thieves in action; 7. Barbarous levities: fear, guilt, and the value of confusion; 8. Everyone left to his own reflections: the oddity of the highwayman as hero and social critic; Postscript; Appendices; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.
Descriere
Turned to Account is a groundbreaking study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography.