Description
Book SynopsisSynthesizing the histories of masculinity, manners, and radicalism, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century aristocratic male.
Trade ReviewThe book impresses with its attentive close readings of important texts, and makes a valuable contribution to gender studies of eighteenth-century Britain. Times Literary Supplement 2009 An engaging study of elite modes of early modern criminality... A richly rewarding volume. -- Ingrid Ranum Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 2010 Erin Mackie is to be congratulated on the range, scholarship, and critical perception in her study of some disquieting resemblances between deviant masculine types and perfect gentleman. -- Carolyn D. Williams Eighteenth-Century Fiction 2010 Opens up new avenues for thinking about masculinity, gender, and authority in the long eighteenth century. -- Hal Gladfelder 1650-1850 2010
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Historicizing Masculinity: The Criminal and the Gentleman
2. Always Making Excuses: The Rake and Criminality
3. Romancing the Highwayman
4. Welcome the Outlaw: Pirates, Maroons, and Caribbean Countercultures
5. Privacy and Ideology: Elite Male Crime in Burney's Evelina and Godwin's Caleb Williams
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