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Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England

By Sandra Clark

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
1403902127, 9781403902122, 9780230000629
LCC
PR428.C74 C57 2003
Open Library ID
OL22572094M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
712 kB (729080 bytes)
Pages
256\247
Topic
Literature Literary
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The book explores how real-life women's crimes were handled in the news media of an age before the invention of the newspaper, in ballads, pamphlets, and plays. It discusses those features of contemporary society that particularly influenced early modern crime reporting, such as attitudes to news, the law and women's rights, and ideas about the responsibility of the community for keeping order. It considers the problems of writing about transgressive women for audiences whose ideal woman was chase, silent, and obedient.

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