Enter the press-gang : naval impressment in eighteenth-century British literature
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Enter the press-gang : naval impressment in eighteenth-century British literature
University of Delaware Press , Associated University Presses, c2002
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"Enlargement of author's dissertation (ph. D.)--Auburn University"--CIP
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-214) and index
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This book considers the eighteenth-century practice of violent naval recruitment known as impressment in the light of literary representations of its impact on British society. The author examines scenes that feature press-gangs in novels, plays, ballads, and personal narratives and shows how impressment reveals the ways genre is related to ideology.
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