Author: Camden Pelham (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The Chronicles of Crime
Author: Camden Pelham (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The penny politics of Victorian popular fiction
Author: Rob BretonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526156377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan’s longest and most significant people’s movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.
THE CHRONICLES OF NEWGATE
Author: ARTHUR GRIFFITHSThe new and complete Newgate calendar; or, Villany displayed in all its branches
Author: William Jackson (of the Inner temple.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Bound with an Iron Chain
Author: Anthony VaverPublisher: Pickpocket Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Most people know that England shipped thousands of convicts to Australia, but few are aware that colonial America was the original destination for Britain's unwanted criminals. In the 18th century, thousands of British convicts were separated from their families, chained together in the hold of a ship, and carried off to America, sometimes for the theft of a mere handkerchief.What happened to these convicts once they arrived in America? Did they prosper in an environment of unlimited opportunity, or were they ostracized by the other colonists? Anthony Vaver tells the stories of the petty thieves and professional criminals who were punished by being sent across the ocean to work on plantations. In bringing to life this forgotten chapter in American history, he challenges the way we think about immigration to early America.The book also includes a helpful appendix with tips on researching individual convicts transported to America.
Detective Fiction
Author: Charles J. RzepkaPublisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745629421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
'Detective Fiction' is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood characters and texts of the modern day. Undergraduate students of Detective and Crime Fiction and of genre fiction in general, will find this book essential reading.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, who Have Been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining Or Other Offences
Author: Arthur Lawrence HaywardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Author: The New and Complete Newgate Calendar; Or, Villary Displayed in All Its Branches
Author: William JacksonThe New and Complete Newgate Calendar ... Containing ... Narratives ... of the Various Executions and Other Exemplary Punishments ... in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, from the Year 1700 to the Present Time
Author: William Jackson (of the Inner Temple.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description