１８世紀英国における犯罪とナラティヴ<br>Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England : Beyond the Law

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１８世紀英国における犯罪とナラティヴ
Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England : Beyond the Law

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780801866081
  • DDC分類 823.509355

基本説明

Shows how genres such as the trial report, providence book, criminal biography, and gallows speech came into new commercial prominence and brought into focus what was most disturbing, and most exciting, about contemporary experience.

Full Description

Stories of transgression-Gilgamesh, Prometheus, Oedipus, Eve-may be integral to every culture's narrative imaginings of its own origins, but such stories assumed different meanings with the burgeoning interest in modern histories of crime and punishment in the later decades of the seventeenth century. In Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England, Hal Gladfelder shows how the trial report, providence book, criminal biography, and gallows speech came into new commercial prominence and brought into focus what was most disturbing, and most exciting, about contemporary experience. These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openness to discordant meanings and discrepant points of view which characterizes the later fictions of Defoe and Fielding. Beginning with the various genres of crime narrative, Gladfelder maps a complex network of discourses that collectively embodied the range of responses to the transgressive at the turn of the eighteenth century.
In the book's second and third parts, he demonstrates how the discourses of criminality became enmeshed with emerging novelistic conceptions of character and narrative form. With special attention to Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, Gladfelder argues that Defoe's narratives concentrate on the forces that shape identity, especially under conditions of outlawry, social dislocation, and urban poverty. He next considers Fielding's double career as author and magistrate, analyzing the interaction between his fiction and such texts as the aggressively polemical Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase in Robbers and his eyewitness accounts of the sensational Canning and Penlez cases. Finally, Gladfelder turns to Godwin's Caleb Williams, Wollstonecraft's Maria, and Inchbald's Nature and Art to reveal the degree to which criminal narrative, by the end of the eighteenth century, had become a necessary vehicle for articulating fundamental cultural anxieties and longings. Crime narratives, he argues, vividly embody the struggles of individuals to define their place in the suddenly unfamiliar world of modernity.

Contents

Contents: Introduction PART I: CRIMINAL REPRESENTATIONS Chapter 1: Constructing the Underworld: Criminal Anatomies Chapter 2: Picaresque and Providential Fictions Chapter 3: Crime Reports and Gallows Writing Chapter 4: Criminal Trials: Testimony and Narrative Realism Chapter 5: Criminal Biographies: The Singular and the Exemplary PART II: CRIME AND IDENTITY: DEFOE IN THE 1720s Chapter 6: Colonel Jack's Childhood Chapter 7: Moll Flanders and Her Confederates Chapter 8: Guilt and the Reader of Roxana PART III: THE JUDGE AND THE AUTHOR: FIELDING THE MIDCENTURY Chapter 9: The Politics and Poetics of Crime and Punishment Chapter 10: Fielding as Magistrate: The Canning and Penlez Cases Chapter 11: Amelia: Imprisonment and Transgression Epilogue: English Radicalism and the Literature of Crime Notes Bibliography Index