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