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Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates : the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century
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Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates : the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century / Erin Mackie.
ISBN
9780801890888 (acid-free paper)
0801890888 (acid-free paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
x, 231 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 22, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-224) and index.
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.
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