Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates: The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century (repost)
Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates: The Making of the Modern Gentleman in the Eighteenth Century By Erin Mackie
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0801890888 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0801890888 | PDF | 2 MB
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.
Mackie traces the emergence of these character types to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when traditional aristocratic authority was increasingly challenged. She argues that the development of the modern polite gentleman as a male archetype can only be fully comprehended when considered alongside figures of fallen nobility, which, although criminal, were also glamorous enough to reinforce the same ideological order.