Bogen søger oprindelsen til den nutidens høflige, engelske gentleman i mandetyper i 1700-tallets litteratur: libertinere, landevejsrøvere og sørøvere, som udfordrede tidens traditionelle aristokratiske autoritet
Historicizing masculinity: the criminal and the gentleman -- Always making excuses: the rake and criminality -- Romancing the highwayman -- Welcome the outlaw: pirates, maroons, and Caribbean countercultures -- Privacy and ideology: elite male crime in Frances Burney's Evelina a…
"Erin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less respectable but no less celebrated eighteenth-century masculine types: the rake, the highwayman, and the pirate. She traces the emergence of these character types to the seventeenth …
