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Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates
Erin Mackie
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Description for Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates
Synthesizing the histories of masculinity, manners, and radicalism, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century aristocratic male. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Erin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less respectable but no less celebrated eighteenth-century masculine types: the rake, the highwayman, and the pirate. Mackie traces the emergence of these character types to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when traditional aristocratic authority was increasingly challenged. She argues that the development of the modern polite gentleman as a male archetype can only be fully comprehended when considered alongside figures of fallen nobility, which, although criminal, were also glamorous enough to reinforce the same ideological order. In Evelina's Lord Orville, Clarissa's ... Read more
Erin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less respectable but no less celebrated eighteenth-century masculine types: the rake, the highwayman, and the pirate. Mackie traces the emergence of these character types to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when traditional aristocratic authority was increasingly challenged. She argues that the development of the modern polite gentleman as a male archetype can only be fully comprehended when considered alongside figures of fallen nobility, which, although criminal, were also glamorous enough to reinforce the same ideological order. In Evelina's Lord Orville, Clarissa's ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801890888
SKU
V9780801890888
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About Erin Mackie
Erin Mackie is an associate professor of English at Syracuse University. She is author of Market a la Mode: Fashion, Commodity, and Gender in "The Tatler" and "The Spectator," also published by Johns Hopkins, and editor of The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator .
Reviews for Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates
The 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, ... Read more
Ingrid Ranum Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 2010 Erin Mackie is to be congratulated on the range, scholarship, ... Read more