Title Criminality and narrative in eighteenth-century England : beyond the law / Hal Gladfelder

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) Contents 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 PunishmentChapter Ten: Fielding as Magistrate -- Chapter Eleven: Amelia -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "In Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England, Hal Gladfelder shows how the trial report, providence book, criminal biography, and gallows speech came into new commercial prominence and brought into focus what was most disturbing, and most exciting, about contemporary experience. These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openness to discordant meanings and discrepant points of view which characterize the later fictions of Defoe and Fielding."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Crime in literature Criminals in literature Detective and mystery stories, English English fiction Law in literature Literature and society Narration (Rhetoric) Social classes in literature Literatur Verbrechen Motiv Kriminalliteratur Roman Fictie. Engels. Criminaliteit. Geschichte 1600 -- 1800. Geschichte 1600-1800. England Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 080187565X 9780801875656

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