Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England
| Author/creator | Clark, S. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Palgrave Macmillan Secaucus : Springer [Distributor] |
| Description | xi, 233 p. ill 21.600 x 014.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Books |
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| Summary | Annotation Clark 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 which 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 chaste, silent, and obedient. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781349507993 |
| ISBN | 1349507997 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781349507993 |
| Stock number | 9781349507993 00676990 |