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Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century /

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Main Author: Mackie, Erin Skye, 1959-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Burney, Fanny, > 1752-1840. > Evelina.
Godwin, William, > 1756-1836. > Things as they are.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Literature and society > England > History > 18th century.
Libertines in literature.
Adventure and adventurers in literature.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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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