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Faller, Lincoln Bruce was born on January 26, 1943 in Huntington, New York, United States. Son of Lincoln A. and Evelyn C. (Stahl) Faller.
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{ TURNED TO ACCOUNT: THE FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF CRIMINAL BIOGRAPHY IN LATE SEVENTEENTH- AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND } Faller, Lincoln B ( AUTHOR ) Dec-04-2002 Hardcover
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Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, widespread fear of criminal assault motivated the publication of hundreds of pamphlets tracing the lives and misdeeds of London's most notorious rogues. Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. The author has not produced a criminal history, but an intriguing distillation of some 2,000 separate narratives describing the lives, deeds, and dying words of thieves, murderers, and various scoundrels. Lincoln Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote, and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character. He completes his treatment by showing how the pamphlets served to delineate the lines of socially acceptable behaviour. Faller has chosen his examples with skill and economy to produce a comprehensive and interesting work.
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Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- And Early Eighteenth-Century England TURNED TO ACCOUNT: THE FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF CRIMINAL BIOGRAPHY IN LATE SEVENTEENTH- AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND By F
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Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
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This book seeks to recover something of the original excitement, challenge and significance of Defoe's four novels of criminal life by reading them within and against the conventions of early eighteenth-century criminal biography. Crime raised deeply troubling questions in Defoe's time, not least as a powerful sign of the breakdown of traditional social authority and order. Arguing that Defoe's novels, like criminal biography, provided ways of facing and working through, as well as avoiding, certain of the moral and intellectual difficulties that crime raised for him and his readers, Faller shows how the 'literary', even 'aesthetic' qualities of his fiction contributed to these ends. Analysing the ways in which Defoe's novels exploited, deformed and departed from the genre they imitated, this book attempts to define the specific social and political (which is to say moral and ideological) value of a given set of 'literary' texts against those of a more 'ordinary' form of narrative.
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Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing CRIME AND DEFOE: A NEW KIND OF WRITING By Faller, Lincoln B. ( Author )Feb-04-2008 Paperback
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Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England by Lincoln B. Faller (1987-09-25)
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Lincoln Bruce Faller
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Lincoln Bruce Faller, American English educator. National Endowment for Humanities fellow, 1972, 73-74, University of Michigan fellow, 1972, 73, 75, Fulbright fellow, 1986-1987; American Philosophical Society grantee, 1975. Member Modern Language Association (delegate 1984-1986), American Society for 18th Century Studies, Santa Fe Trail Association, Kit Carson Cooperative.
Education
AB, Oberlin College, 1964; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1971.
Career
Lecturer, Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1966-1967; lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1968-1971; assistant professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1971-1975; associate professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1975-1992; professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1992. Visiting Professor of English and American literature U. Yaounde, Cameroon, 1986-1987. Chairman graduate program in English University of Michigan, 1988-1991.
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Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
(This book seeks to recover something of the original exci...)
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Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England
(In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, widespread f...)
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- { TURNED TO ACCOUNT: THE FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF CRIMINAL BIOGRAPHY IN LATE SEVENTEENTH- AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND } Faller, Lincoln B ( AUTHOR ) Dec-04-2002 Hardcover
- Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- And Early Eighteenth-Century England TURNED TO ACCOUNT: THE FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF CRIMINAL BIOGRAPHY IN LATE SEVENTEENTH- AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND By F
- Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing CRIME AND DEFOE: A NEW KIND OF WRITING By Faller, Lincoln B. ( Author )Feb-04-2008 Paperback
- Turned to Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England by Lincoln B. Faller (1987-09-25)
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Crime and Defoe: A New Kind of Writing (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
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Member Modern Language Association (delegate 1984-1986), American Society for 18th Century Studies, Santa Fe Trail Association, Kit Carson Cooperative.
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Married Kathleen Coulborn, September 5, 1964. 1 child, Helen.
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National Endowment for Humanities fellow, 1972, 73-74, University of Michigan fellow, 1972, 73, 75, Fulbright fellow, 1986-1987. American Philosophical Society grantee, 1975.National Endowment for Humanities fellow, 1972, 73-74, University of Michigan fellow, 1972, 73, 75, Fulbright fellow, 1986-1987. American Philosophical Society grantee, 1975.