Narrating Transgression: Representations of the Criminal in Early Modern England - Couverture souple

Loretelli, Rosamaria; Romanis, Roberto De

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3631334494 ISBN 13 : 9783631334492

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, 1999

Synopsis

Crime and the criminal are amongst the outstanding discourses of late seventeenth and eighteenth-century English written culture, a subject to be found in ballads, sermons, biographies, case histories, dying speeches, newspaper articles, accounts of trials, Newgate Ordinary reports, paintings and etchings, poems, comedies and novels. It is this printed material that the essays in the present collection approach, somewhat obliquely, searching for hidden meanings and unavowed aims. The result is an opening up of new perspectives : not only on the various attitudes towards particular crimes and particular types of criminal - such as thieves, 'sodomites' and prostitutes - but also on cultural control as enacted by the various literary and visual genres. New insights are achieved into seventeenth and eighteenth-century mentalities, into perception of the marginal, and into the very idea of the human being.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Editors : Rosamaria Loretelli teaches English literature at the University of Naples Federico II. She has written books on the English and the European picaresque novel (1984 and 1993), a bibliography of English seventeenth and eighteenth-century popular literature of crime (1995), and many articles on the theory of the novel and on seventeenth and eighteenth-century narrative. Roberto De Romanis teaches English literature at the University of Perugia. He is author of a reader's guide to Robinson Crusoe (1989) and of articles on seventeenth and eighteenth-century literature and culture, on spiritual autobiographies, and on criminal biography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang GmbH
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631334494
• ISBN 13: 9783631334492
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible