Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates: The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century

by Erin Mackie

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Erin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less respectable but no less celebrated eighteenth-century masculine types: the rake, the highwayman, and the pirate.

Mackie traces the emergence of these character types to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when traditional aristocratic authority was increasingly challenged. She argues that the development of the modern polite gentleman...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:142141385X

ISBN13:9781421413853

Release Date:April 2014

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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