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Turned to account :

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the forms and functions of criminal biography in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England /

Lincoln B. Faller

xiii, 347 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-339) and index

Turning Criminals to Account: Three Case Histories and Two Myths of Crime. 1. The highwayman: power, grace, and money at command ; 2. Familiar murder: sin, death, damnation, repentance, God's grace, and salvation -- Enucleating the Truth: The Criminal as Sinner Turned Saint. 3. In the absence of adequate causes: efforts at an etiology of crime ; 4. Heaven seized by sincerity and zeal: justifying God, vindicating man ; 5. Love makes all things easy: recementing the social bond -- Palliating His Crimes: The Thief as Various Rogues. 6. Smiles, serious thoughts, and things beyond imagining: a provisional typology of thieves in action ; 7. Barbarous levities: fear, guilt, and the value of confusion ; Everyone left to his own reflections: the oddity of the highwayman as hero and social critic

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Criminals-- England-- Biography-- History and criticism

Criminals-- England-- History-- 17th century

Criminals-- England-- History-- 18th century

English prose literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism

English prose literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism

Faller, Lincoln B

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