The Culture of Crime: Representations of the Criminal in Eighteenth-Century England

This dissertation explores how literary criminal narratives reflected public anxieties over the increasing commercialization of England during the early eighteenth century. It accounts for the popularity of the criminal in literature as well as public concerns about commercialization and the individ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gonzalez, Daniel
Other Authors: James Springer Borck
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2002
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0418102-024341/