Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices : Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century - Philip Rawlings

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Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century

By: Philip Rawlings

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Hardcover | 1 October 1992 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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Criminal biographies enjoyed enormous popularity in the eighteenth century, and today they offer us some fascinating perspectives on the period. "Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices" is the first book of its kind to reproduce a variety of these personal histories in one volume. Included are the biographies of street robbers, pickpockets, burglars, and horse thieves such as James Dalton, who was transported to North America, John Shepard, a popular folk hero who twice escaped from the condemned cell at Newgate Prison, and Mary Young, who allegedly headed her own gang of London pickpockets.
Each biography is prefaced with background historical information,, and thoroughly footnoted. Not only does "Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices" make fascinating reading, it also raises the the problem of how to read these historical documents. Rawlings argues that instead of trying to uncover simple themes and consistencies, the most revealing thing about these biographies is the tensions, never satisfactorily resolved, around which they were constructed.

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Non-Fiction Social Services & Welfare Crime & Criminology Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Biographies & True Stories True Stories True Crime Biographies Historical, Political and Military Biographies History Specific Events & Topics in History

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Preface
Abbreviations
General Introduction
The biographical literature of crime and its popularity
Readers
Writers and the problems of authenticity and accuracy
The criminal biography as literature
The criminal biography as history
Issues and tensions in criminal biographies
Changes in the literature
Further reading
Notes
The History of ... John Sheppard (1724)
The Life and Actions of James Dalton (1730)
The Ordinary of Newgate's Account: Mary Young (1741)
The Discoveries of John Poulter (1753-4)
The Life, Travels, Exploits, Frauds and Robberies of Charles Speckman (1763)
Index	p. 217
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