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Author

Mackie, Erin Skye, 1959-

Title Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates [electronic resource] : the making of the modern gentleman in the eighteenth century / Erin Mackie.

Imprint

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	x, 231 p.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-224) and index.
Contents	Historicizing masculinity: the criminal and the gentleman -- Always making excuses: the rake and criminality -- Romancing the highwayman -- Welcome the outlaw: pirates, maroons, and Caribbean countercultures -- Privacy and ideology: elite male crime in Burney's Evelina and Godwin's Caleb Williams.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840. Evelina.
	Godwin, William, 1756-1836. Things as they are.
	English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	Masculinity in literature.
	Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century.
	Libertines in literature.
	Adventure and adventurers in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780801890888 (acid-free paper)
	0801890888 (acid-free paper)