Lincoln B. Faller

Turned to Account

The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- And Early Eighteenth-Century England

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Produktbeschreibung

Turned to Account is a groundbreaking study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9780521065627
• ISBN-10: 0521065623
• Artikelnr.: 23581280

Inhaltsangabe

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.