Author: Alexander SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The History of the Lives, of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Foot-pads, Shop-lifts and Cheats of Both Sexes, in and about London and Other Places ... for Fifty Years Last Past. The Second Edition
Author: Alexander SmithEarly Modern English Dialogues
Author: Jonathan CulpeperPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521835410
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
This book analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken interaction in earlier times might have been like.
Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 1
Author: Gary KellyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040246443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset.
A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes
Author: Captain Alexander SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136484167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
A Complete History of the Highwaymen discloses the most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts and unheard of cheats, setting them in a true light and exposing them to public view for the common benefit of mankind. The accounts and confessions are drawn from imprisoned villains who awaited their fate at the gallows. This reprint makes available the 1926 reissue of Captain Smith's fifth edition and includes an introduction by Arthur L. Hayward, which sets the accounts in the appropriate historical context.
A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts, & Cheats of Both Sexes
Author: Alexander SmithPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415286787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
This volume makes available the 1926 reissue of Captain Smith's fifth edition of A Complete History of the Highwaymen. The accounts and confessions are drawn from imprisoned villains who awaited their fate at the gallows.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Daniel Defoe
Author: Maximillian E. NovakPublisher:
ISBN: 9780199261543
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Daniel Defoe led an exciting and indeed precarious life. A provocative pamphleteer and journalist, a spy and double agent, a revolutionary and a dreamer, he was variously hunted by mobs with murderous intent and treated as a celebrity by the most powerful leaders of the country. Imprisoned many times, pilloried and reviled by his enemies, through it all he managed to produce some of the most significant literature of the eighteenth century. Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions is the first biography to view Defoe's complex life through the angle of vision that is most important to us as modern readers--his career as a writer. Maximillian Novak, a leading authority on Defoe, ranges from the writer's earliest collection of brief stories, which he presented to his future wife under the sobriquet Bellmour, to his Compleat English Gentleman, left unpublished at his death. Novak illuminates such works as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, novels that changed the course of fiction in their time and have remained towering classics to this day. And he reveals a writer who was a superb observer of his times--an age of dramatic historical, political, and social change. Indeed, through his many pamphlets, newspapers, books of travel, and works of fiction, Defoe commented on everything from birth control to the price of coal, and from flying machines to the dangers of the plague. Beautifully and authoritatively written, this is the first serious, full-scale biography of Defoe to appear in a decade. It gives us, for the first time, a full understanding of the thought and personal experience that lie behind some of the great works of English literature.
Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Hal GladfelderPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801866081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openness to discordant meanings and discrepant points of view which characterize the later fictions of Defoe and Fielding."--BOOK JACKET.
The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature
Author: Francis Adams HyettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature--Supplement to the Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature
Author: Sir Francis Adams HyettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description