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Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates : the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century / Erin Mackie.
Van Pelt Library PR448.M37 M33 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackie, Erin Skye, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Literature and society--England--History--18th century.
- Literature and society.
- England.
- History.
- Libertines in literature.
- Adventure and adventurers in literature.
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840. Evelina.
- Burney, Fanny.
- Godwin, William, 1756-1836. Things as they are.
- Godwin, William.
- Physical Description:
- x, 231 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Historicizing masculinity: the criminal and the gentleman
- Always making excuses: the rake and criminality
- Romancing the highwayman
- Welcome the outlaw: pirates, maroons, and Caribbean countercultures
- Privacy and ideology: elite male crime in Burney's Evelina and Godwin's Caleb Williams.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801890888
- 0801890888
- OCLC:
- 229342434
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