Class 9: Fears and myths
The recommended secondary sources are not quite the same as in the original course handout - ignore the article by Lynn Robson, since we’ve already looked at murder pamphlets.
On ‘rogue literature’, it’s worth reading both of these articles (they’re in the same journal, and talking about the same thing but from different disciplinary perspectives):
Linda Woodbridge, ‘Jest books, the literature of roguery, and the vagrant poor in Renaissance England’, English Literary Renaissance, 33 (2003) [e-journal]
Lee Beier, ‘On the boundaries of new and old historicisms: Thomas Harman and the literature of roguery’, English Literary Renaissance, 33 (2003) [e-journal]
(Also: Linda Woodbridge, Imposters, monsters and spies: what rogue literature can tell us about early modern subjectivity .)
Or on highwaymen:
LB Faller, Turned to account, chaps. 1, 8
J Sharpe, Dick Turpin: the myth of the English highwayman
Possible online sources (I haven’t really decided exactly what to use yet):
Select a section or two from Thomas Harman, A caveat for common cursetors (EEBO) or from Henry Fielding, An enquiry into the cause of the late increase of robbers (ECCO).
Highwaymen:
London Evening Post, Gentleman’s Magazine, letter