THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF AN EXTENSIVE BODY OF ROGUE
PAMPHLETS PUBLISHED IN EARLY MODERN LONDON.
Early modern England was fascinated by the figure of the rogue. The
rogue, who could be a beggar or vagrant but also a cutpurse, conman,
card sharp, and all-round 'trickster' or even a highwayman, appeared
in a variety of texts including plays, ballads, romances, sermons,
proclamations, and pamphlets. This book offers the first comprehensive
analysis of an extensive body of rogue pamphlets published in London
between the late sixteenth and late seventeenthcenturies, a period
which saw a burst of publications about criminals. It examines how the
figure of the rogue and rogue pamphlets developed and how the
pamphlets both reflected and affected readers' perceptions of crime
and morality against a backdrop of dramatic urban growth. The book
reveals that rogue pamphlets were part of a wider range of popular
literature which dealt with London and its early modern
transformations and that they were not static representations of
criminality but were shaped by the changing cultural expectations of
authors, publishers, and readers. Drawing on cutting-edge research,
this study represents a timely contribution to the history of the book
and early modern print culture, the cultural history of crime, and the
socio-cultural history of London.
LENA LIAPI teaches early modern history at Keele University.
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Crime and Culture in Early Modern London
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ISBN
9781787446373
Publisert
2020
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1. utgave
Utgiver
Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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