Criminality and narrative in eighteenth-century England
Subtitle: beyond the law
By: Hal Gladfelder.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: 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; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 18th century; Social classes in literature; Criminals in literature; Law in literature
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-273) and index.