{"product_id":"turned-to-account-the-forms-and-functions-of-criminal-biography-in-late-seventeenth-and-early-eighteenth-century-england-hardback-9780521326728","title":"Turned to Account; The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England (Hardback) 9780521326728","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTurned to Account\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTurned to Account is a groundbreaking study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLincoln B. Faller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521326728, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 September 1987\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e364 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, widespread fear of criminal assault motivated the publication of hundreds of pamphlets tracing the lives and misdeeds of London's most notorious rogues. Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. The author has not produced a criminal history, but an intriguing distillation of some 2,000 separate narratives describing the lives, deeds, and dying words of thieves, murderers, and various scoundrels. Lincoln Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote, and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character. He completes his treatment by showing how the pamphlets served to delineate the lines of socially acceptable behaviour. Faller has chosen his examples with skill and economy to produce a comprehensive and interesting work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Turning Criminals to Account: Three Case Histories and Two Myths of Crime: 1. The highwayman: power, grace, and money at command\u003cbr\u003e 2. Familiar murder: sin, death, damnation, repentance, God's grace, and salvation\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Enucleating the Truth: The Criminal as Sinner Turned Saint: 3. In the absence of adequate causes: efforts at an etiology of crime\u003cbr\u003e 4. Heaven seized by sincerity and zeal: justifying God, vindicating man\u003cbr\u003e 5. Love makes all things easy: recementing the social bond\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Palliating His Crimes: The Thief as Various Rogues: 6. Smiles, serious thoughts, and things beyond imagining: a provisional typology of thieves in action\u003cbr\u003e 7. Barbarous levities: fear, guilt, and the value of confusion\u003cbr\u003e 8. Everyone left to his own reflections: the oddity of the highwayman as hero and social critic\u003cbr\u003e Postscript\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007093166360,"sku":"9780521326728","price":78.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521326728i_153f0140-8ea9-4b6c-b075-ac74c4054d53.jpg?v=1691375214","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/turned-to-account-the-forms-and-functions-of-criminal-biography-in-late-seventeenth-and-early-eighteenth-century-england-hardback-9780521326728","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}