police, prisons and poetry in the 1790s Bailey, Quentin 1972- creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography biography Electronic books. vtu Burlington, Vt Ashgate c2011 2011 monographic eng

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230 p. Prisoners, poetry, and the 'Jacobin creed' -- A 'rapid and alarming increase of crimes': law and order in eighteenth-century england -- 'Tyranny and implements of death': crimes, punishments, and the 'distracted times' of 1792-1795 -- A traveller upon the plain of sarum: sacrificial altars, penal reform, and the salisbury plain poems -- 'If good angels fail': government, lawlessness, and sympathy in the borderers -- 'Dangerous and suspicious trades': the pedlar, the board of police revenue, and the poetry of human suffering -- 'Have you any honest means of livelihood, and if so, what is it?': idle and disorderly persons in the 1798 lyrical ballads -- 'Laugh and be gay, to the woods away!': madness and the limits of poetic knowledge -- Peter Bell and 'the spirits of the mind'. by Quentin Bailey. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. e-uk-en Wordsworth, William 1770-1850 Criticism and interpretation Wordsworth, William 1770-1850 Political and social views Literature and society England History 18th century English poetry 18th century History and criticism Social change in literature Prisons in literature PR5892.S58 B35 2011eb 821/.7 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10490680 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10490680 CaPaEBR 110425 ebr10490680