Turned to account : the forms and functions of criminal biography in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England /
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| Author / Creator: | Faller, Lincoln B. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. |
| Description: | xiii, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/815016 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Turning Criminals to Account: Three Case Histories and Two Myths of Crime
- 1. The highwayman: power, grace, and money at command
- 2. Familiar murder: sin, death, damnation, repentance, God's grace, and salvation
- Part II. Enucleating the Truth: The Criminal as Sinner Turned Saint
- 3. In the absence of adequate causes: efforts at an etiology of crime
- 4. Heaven seized by sincerity and zeal: justifying God, vindicating man
- 5. Love makes all things easy: recementing the social bond
- Part III. Palliating His Crimes: The Thief as Various Rogues
- 6. Smiles, serious thoughts, and things beyond imagining: a provisional typology of thieves in action
- 7. Barbarous levities: fear, guilt, and the value of confusion
- 8. Everyone left to his own reflections: the oddity of the highwayman as hero and social critic
- Postscript
- Appendices
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index