Richard M. Ward, Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London, London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014, 256 p., ISBN 9781472507112.
In the ever-widening body of work on media representations of crime, eighteenth-century England has received particular attention, with notable contributions from historians such as Esther Snell, Peter King and Robert Shoemaker. Richard Ward’s book is a valuable addition to this work, not least bec...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2017
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | In the ever-widening body of work on media representations of crime, eighteenth-century England has received particular attention, with notable contributions from historians such as Esther Snell, Peter King and Robert Shoemaker. Richard Ward’s book is a valuable addition to this work, not least because he examines a range of different genres of print culture while most other studies have been limited to one genre. Specifically, he looks at metropolitan newspapers, social policy pamphlets, gr... |
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