Tales from the Hanging Court - Rilegato

Hitchcock, Tim; Shoemaker, Robert

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0340913746 ISBN 13: 9780340913741

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2006

Riassunto

From everyday customs to violent transgression, Tales from the Hanging Court paints a fascinating and vivid picture of what it was like to live in London 200 years ago, from the dark alleys to the glittering thoroughfares.

Drawing on the Old Baily archives from 1674-1834, the authors recreate the real-life and death dramas on which Defoe, Fielding, and Dickens based their novels. They uncover the traditions--and aberrations--that colored daily life in a society where it was easier to witness an execution than to attend the theater.

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Recensione:

'I loved this book and found it utterly compelling.'

(Kathryn Hughes, author of The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton)

'Hitchcock and Shoemaker feel no need to jazz up this rich period detail to bring it to life, and maintain a scholarly distance from the material...in doing so, they leave room for an even more interesting account of a society's dawning realization, over the course of a revolutionary century, that crime and punishment needed to be taken out of the hands of the mob and set up in rational lines.'

(Time Out 2006-11-15)

L'autore:

Robert Shoemaker and Tim Hitchcock are the Editors of the online proceedings of the Old Bailey archives.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0340913746
• ISBN 13: 9780340913741
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 265