Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Turning criminals to account: three case histories and two myths of crime
- Part II Enucleating the truth: the criminal as sinner turned saint
- Part III Palliating his crimes: the thief as various rogues
- Postscript: Criminal biography and the novel
- Appendix I Who read the popular literature of crime?
- Appendix II The politics of thieving
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Select bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Turning criminals to account: three case histories and two myths of crime
- Part II Enucleating the truth: the criminal as sinner turned saint
- Part III Palliating his crimes: the thief as various rogues
- Postscript: Criminal biography and the novel
- Appendix I Who read the popular literature of crime?
- Appendix II The politics of thieving
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Turned to AccountThe Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England, pp. 286 - 340Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987