Guilty Pleasures: Narrative Craft and Mass Appeal in the Newgate Calendar

The Newgate Calendar, one of the earliest true crime documents, has rarely been studied. This paper aims to demonstrate that these texts illuminate various aspects of the culture that both produced and consumed the narratives the Calendar contains. In particular, I have focused on two different c...

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Main Author: Rust, Aimee
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UNO 2006
Online Access:http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/399
http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1420&context=td