Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England

Abstract

Preface Part I. Turning Criminals to Account: Three Case Histories and Two Myths of Crime: 1. The highwayman: power, grace, and money at command 2. Familiar murder: sin, death, damnation, repentance, God's grace, and salvation Part II. Enucleating the Truth: The Criminal as Sinner Turned Saint: 3. In the absence of adequate causes: efforts at an etiology of crime 4. Heaven seized by sincerity and zeal: justifying God, vindicating man 5. Love makes all things easy: recementing the social bond Part III. Palliating His Crimes: The Thief as Various Rogues: 6. Smiles, serious thoughts, and things beyond imagining: a provisional typology of thieves in action 7. Barbarous levities: fear, guilt, and the value of confusion 8. Everyone left to his own reflections: the oddity of the highwayman as hero and social critic Postscript Appendices Notes Selected bibliography Index.

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