{"product_id":"literature-and-crime-in-augustan-ian-a-bell-9780367818913","title":"Literature and Crime in Augustan England","description":"\u003cp\u003eEighteenth-century England saw an explosion of writings about deviance. In literature, in the law, and in the press, writers returned again and again to the question of crime and criminals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the extension of the legal system formalised the power of the state to categorise and punish 'deviance', writers repeatedly confronted the problematic nature of legal authority and the unstable idea of 'the criminal'. Some of this commentary was supportive, some was subversive and resistant, uncovering the complexity of issues the law sought to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1991, Ian Bell's masterly investigation of the diverse representations of crime and legality in the Augustan period ranges widely across the contemporary press, involving court reports, philosophical writings, periodicals, biographies, pornography and polemics. Re-assessing the canonical texts of eighteenth-century 'Literature', Bell situates the work of Defoe, Hogarth, Gay, Swift, Pope, Richardson and Fielding in its social and political context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian a. Bell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367818914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367818913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Ian a. Bell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48112886579455,"sku":"9780367818913","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_466ab48a-9bac-4a26-be1d-f0c11e91dbb3.jpg?v=1769611609","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literature-and-crime-in-augustan-ian-a-bell-9780367818913","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}