Newgate narratives
著者
書誌事項
Newgate narratives
Pickering & Chatto, 2008
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Presents a representative body of Romantic and early Victorian crime literature. This work contains ephemeral material ranging from gallows broadsides to reports into prison conditions. It is suitable for those studying Literature, Romantic and Victorian popular culture, Dickens Studies and the History of Criminology.
目次
- Volume 1 Criminal Street Literature: Last Dying Words
- criminal trials
- Tyburn gallows broadsheets
- Romantic and Victorian chapbook versions of Jack Sheppard, Dick Turpin, Moll Flanders
- selections from pioneering prison reform literature
- pamphlets on the crime controversies from the 1810s and 1820s
- accounts of prison life, organization, and culture by administrators, reformers, and social commentators Volume 2 Thomas Gaspey, Richmond (1827) Thomas Gaspey, now largely forgotten, was a pioneering and skilful crime writer. This detective novel about Tom Richmond, a Bow Street Runner, exploited a growing interest in police investigation. Volume 3 Thomas Gaspey, History of George Godfrey (1828) This novel develops the eighteenth-century picaresque tradition. The hero undergoes false arrest, imprisonment, and transportation to the penal colony of Australia Volume 4 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830) This characteristic Newgate novel contains acute social observation as Edward Bulwer Lytton turned a satirical eye on the Establishment. Volume 5 Charles Whitehead, Autobiography of Jack Ketch (1835) Charles Whitehead was a collaborator and inspiration to a range of social commentators, including Charles Dickens.
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