Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law
- ISBN-10
- 080187565X
- ISBN-13
- 9780801875656
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-04-01
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Hal Gladfelder
Description
Crime narratives, he argues, vividly embody the struggles of individuals to define their place in the suddenly unfamiliar world of modernity.
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