Introduction: Rogues and their Historians
Cheap Print and Rogue Pamphlets
Laughter, Tricksters, and Good Fellows
Trust, Sociability, and Criminal Networks
Turning Cavaliers into Rogues: Crime and Polemic in the
Interregnum
Epilogue: Rogue Pamphlets after 1670
Bibliography
Index
[An] impressive entry point into the world of rogue pamphlet
production and the printing industry of London during the early
modern period.
*SCRIPT AND PRINT*
For any student of seventeenth century social life, especially in
the capital, this is a valuable resource, not only for its content
but the references to previous work in the literature of the
time.
*FACHRS NEWSLETTER*
Lena Liapi offers several new and compelling interpretations of the
rogue literature phenomenon...a persuasive analysis of that
literature, which could be applied to a wide range of texts beyond
the limits of an artificially-constructed genre.
*REVIEWS IN HISTORY*
Liapi makes a compelling argument that rogue pamphlets can be read
as a festive and merry genre, one that both celebrated and
satirized the pleasures and dangers of urban life, probably
attracting ordinary readers who were happy to laugh at others'
mishaps.
*JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES*
[Stimulating] and engaging.
*ERAS JOURNAL*
In this very interestlng study, Lena Liapi seeks both to break down
the boundaries between crime literature and other forms of popular
print, and also to cross the boundary between literature and
documentary evidence by examining crime pamphlets alongside some of
the court records dealing with the crimes they described.
*SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL*
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