Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates
Subtitle: the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century
By: Erin Mackie.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780801890888
Subjects: Burney, Fanny, -- 1752-1840; Godwin, William, -- 1756-1836; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century; Libertines in literature; Adventure and adventurers in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historicizing masculinity: the criminal and the gentleman; title: Always making excuses: the rake and criminality; title: Romancing the highwayman; title: Welcome the outlaw: pirates, maroons, and Caribbean countercultures; title: Privacy and ideology: elite male crime in Frances Burney's Evelina and William Godwin's Things as they are, or, The adventures of Caleb Williams.