Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century

by Philip Rawlings

Criminal biographies enjoyed enormous popularity in the Eighteenth Century: today they offer us some fascinating perspectives on the period. Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices is the first book to reproduce a number of these biographies in full.
Not only do these biographies make fascinating reading, they also raise the problem of how to read them as historical documents. The author argues that instead of trying to uncover simple themes, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415755557
• ISBN13: 9780415755559
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages