Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brigands and robbers
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Jack Sheppard
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brigands and robbers
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Jack Sheppard
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A historical romance and a Newgate novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard.
Rookwood
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century
Author: Joanne WilkesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000438171
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. The final volume 4 of 4 explores the subject of drama criticism written by women. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history.
Murder by the Book
Author: Claire HarmanPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525520392
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"From the prize-winning biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria herself to wonder: can a novel kill? In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, was found with his throat cut. The brutal murder had the whole city talking. The police suspected Russell's valet, Courvoisier, but the evidence was weak. And the missing clue lay in the unlikeliest place: what Courvoisier had been reading. In the years just before the murder, new printing methods had made books cheap and abundant, the novel form was on the rise, and suddenly everyone was reading. The best-selling titles were the most sensational true-crime stories. Even Dickens and Thackeray, both at the beginning of their careers, fell under the spell of these tales--Dickens publicly admiring them, Thackeray rejecting them. One such phenomenon was William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard, the story of an unrepentant criminal who escaped the gallows time and again. When Courvoisier finally confessed his guilt, he would cite this novel in his defense. Murder By the Book combines the thrilling true-crime story with a illuminating account of the rise of the novel form and the battle for its early soul between the most famous writers of the time. It is a superbly researched, vividly written, fascinating read from first to last"--
The Works of William Harrison Ainsworth
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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 Works of William Harrison Ainsworth: Jack Sheppard
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Jack Sheppard
Author: William Harrison AinsworthPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Jack Sheppard" (A Romance) by William Harrison Ainsworth. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Fatal Tree
Author: Jake ArnottPublisher: Sceptre
ISBN: 1473637775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
'A work of dazzling imagination and linguistic inventiveness' Observer Newgate Gaol, 1726. An anonymous writer sets down the words of Edgworth Bess as she confides the adventures and misfortunes that led her all too soon to the judgement of London: Cruelly deceived, Bess is cast out onto the streets of the wicked city - and by nightfall her ruin is already certain. What matters now is her survival of it. In that dangerous underworld known in thieves' cant as Romeville, she will learn new tricks and trades. And all begins with her fateful meeting, that very first night, with the corrupt thief-taker general Jonathan Wild. But it is the infamous gaol-breaker, Jack Sheppard, who will lay Romeville at her feet . . . Drawing on the true story that mesmerised eighteenth-century society, the acclaimed author of The Long Firm delivers a tour de force: a riveting, artful tale of crime and rough justice, love and betrayal. Rich in the street slang of the era, it vividly conjures up a murky world of illicit dens and molly-houses; a world where life was lived on the edge, in the shadow of that fatal tree - the gallows.