Criminal Children in the Eighteenth Century and Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack.
The article discusses the correlation between criminal children in the eighteenth century and Daniel Defoe's book "Colonel Jack." It states that modern scholarship too has been fairly approbatory of the children's criminal underworld Defoe represents, and mentions Defoe's depiction of the child pick...
| Publicado en: | Philological Quarterly Vol. 96; no. 1; pp. 27 - 54 |
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Department of English, University of Iowa
Winter2017
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| Sumario: | The article discusses the correlation between criminal children in the eighteenth century and Daniel Defoe's book "Colonel Jack." It states that modern scholarship too has been fairly approbatory of the children's criminal underworld Defoe represents, and mentions Defoe's depiction of the child pickpocket. It notes views of critics Peter Jochum Klaus on Defoe's representation of childhood, and cites Defoe's dual construction of criminal children. |
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