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Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates : the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century / Erin Mackie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackie, Erin Skye, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840. Evelina.
- Burney, Fanny.
- Godwin, William, 1756-1836. Things as they are.
- Godwin, William.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Literature and society--England--History--18th century.
- Literature and society.
- Libertines in literature.
- Adventure and adventurers in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Synthesizing the histories of masculinity, manners, and radicalism, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century aristocratic male.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9530-8
- OCLC:
- 593240623
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