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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, widespread fear of criminal assault motivated the publication of hundreds of pamphlets tracing the lives and misdeeds of London's most notorious rogues. Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. The author has not produced a criminal history, but an intriguing distillation of some 2,000 separate narratives describing the lives, deeds, and dying words of thieves, murderers, and various scoundrels. Lincoln Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote, and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character. He completes his treatment by showing how the pamphlets served to delineate the lines of socially acceptable behaviour. Faller has chosen his examples with skill and economy to produce a comprehensive and interesting work.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Pełny tytuł: Turned to Account
• Podtytuł: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England
• Autor: Lincoln B. Faller
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 364
• EAN: 9780521065627
• ISBN: 0521065623
• ID: 02020318
• Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
• Waga: 550 g
• Wymiary: 153 × 228 × 25 mm
• Data wydania: 19. June 2008

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