In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, widespread fear of criminal assault motivated the publication of hundreds of pamphlets tracing the lives and misdeeds of London's most notorious rogues. Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. The author has not produced a criminal history, but an intriguing distillation of some 2,000 separate narratives describing the lives, deeds, and dying words of thieves, murderers, and various scoundrels. Lincoln Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote, and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character. He completes his treatment by showing how the pamphlets served to delineate the lines of socially acceptable behaviour. Faller has chosen his examples with skill and economy to produce a comprehensive and interesting work.
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence:
After he was hanged and before he was quartered, Captain James Hind was disemboweled for committing high treason against the Commonwealth of England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
criminal rogue biography, heroic highwayman, familiar murder, dying behavior, penitent murderer, criminal biography, other highwaymen, various rogues, hanging thieves, petit treason, assize sermon, criminal biographies, vicarious gratification, capital statutes, criminal lives, capital convictions, dying speeches, sessions papers, true penitent, other thieves, many robberies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Edmondson, Remarkable Criminals, Sir George, Genuine Narrative, Golden Farmer, Hind's Ramble, Charles Johnson, Gentleman of the Law, Paul Lorrain, James Hind, Robin Hood, The English Gusman, Miss Blandy, Mary Blandy, Peter Wolter, Samuel Goodere, Sawney Beane, The Prince of Priggs, Catherine Hayes, Charles Drew, Francis Newland, Harmon Strodtman, Increase Mather, James Guthrie, Joseph Clarke New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
After he was hanged and before he was quartered, Captain James Hind was disemboweled for committing high treason against the Commonwealth of England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
criminal rogue biography, heroic highwayman, familiar murder, dying behavior, penitent murderer, criminal biography, other highwaymen, various rogues, hanging thieves, petit treason, assize sermon, criminal biographies, vicarious gratification, capital statutes, criminal lives, capital convictions, dying speeches, sessions papers, true penitent, other thieves, many robberies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Edmondson, Remarkable Criminals, Sir George, Genuine Narrative, Golden Farmer, Hind's Ramble, Charles Johnson, Gentleman of the Law, Paul Lorrain, James Hind, Robin Hood, The English Gusman, Miss Blandy, Mary Blandy, Peter Wolter, Samuel Goodere, Sawney Beane, The Prince of Priggs, Catherine Hayes, Charles Drew, Francis Newland, Harmon Strodtman, Increase Mather, James Guthrie, Joseph Clarke New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 74
books:
See all 74 books this book cites
15
books
cite this book:
See all 15 books citing this book
- Early Modern England: A Social History 1550-1760 (Hodder Arnold Publication) by J Sharpe on 10 pages
- Crime in England, 1550-1800 by J. S. Cockburn on 4 pages
- Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-century England (Penguin History) by Douglas Hay on 4 pages
- Crime in Seventeenth-Century England: A County Study (Past and Present Publications) by J. A. Sharpe on 4 pages
- Crime in Early Modern England, 1550-1750 (Themes in British Social History) by J. A. Sharpe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
See all 74 books this book cites
- Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 by Frances E. Dolan on page 7, and page 238
- The Self-Fashioning of an Early Modern Englishwoman: Mary Carleton's Lives by Mary Jo Kietzman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740 (Past and Present Publications) by David M. Turner on page 120, and Back Matter
- Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England by Sandra Clark in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Death Penalty: An American History by Stuart Banner in Back Matter
See all 15 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
