I teach English literature and culture at the University of Ca'Foscari, Venice, and specialise in the cultural history of eighteenth-century England. My graduate class is currently working on crime and justice and its representation in early modernity.
Possible Wikipedia topics for University of Ca' Foscari Venice, History of English Culture class 2015-16
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| Augusta Triumphans | Ml17221746 (talk) 18:11, 12 October 2015 (UTC) | |
| Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti | Add paragraph on murder trial. | Micheladv92 (talk) 15:45, 12 October 2015 (UTC) |
| Bow Street Runners | There are inaccuracies; refers almost exclusively to fictional sources. | Elisa.danesin (talk) 09:51, 21 October 2015 (UTC) |
| Thomas de Veil | See Bow Street Magistrates' Court. | 858rine (talk) 00:07, 13 October 2015 (UTC) |
| Fence | Add paragraphs on history of receiving. Add links (e.g. Jonathan Wild). Mention fiction as well (e.g. Defoe). | Franberg5 (talk) 16:32, 12 October 2015 (UTC) |
| Footpad | Could be much expanded. Compare "Highwayman"; both are forms of "Highway robbery". | Im 2u (talk) 15:57, 18 October 2015 (UTC) |
| Charles Hitchen | Relies on single source. Lacks inline citations. | Lela Lazishvili |
| Irish migration to Great Britain | Add historical information to the "Early modern time" paragraph. The OBO has a § on Irish London, with bibliography, and you could hunt out Irish in the trial proceedings. There is also the anti Irish riot which Hitchcock and Shoemaker talk about in Tales. Have a look! | Annaannieann |
| Molly house | Pbord (talk) 10:18, 19 October 2015 (UTC) | |
| Ordinary of Newgate's Account | GMari92 (talk) 15:58, 20 October 2015 (UTC) | |
| Bosavern Penlez | Needs expansion. | Giulia Odo |
| Pick-pocketing | Add historical paragraph (17th-18th). | ClaraC12 |
| Reward | Insert main paragraph before "Examples" | Patrick.ucciardo (talk) 17:06, 18 October 2015 (UTC) |
| Richard Savage | The present article makes no mention of Savage's trial for murder on 6 December 1727 (see H&S Tales p221). One could add a § in Life section. | Daniele Zecchinato |
| William Spiggot/Spigget | Leader of gang of 8, see OBO and OA, put to peine forte et dure 1721 could be added to ‘Cases’ § of Peine forte et dure, and/or an example of highwayman. Would also connect to Ordinary of Newgate, Thomas Purney (see Hitcock & Shoemaker p.174) | JMChaleat (talk) 14:45, 21 October 2015 (UTC) |
| The Blackguard Children | Not to be confused with the Blackguard as described in the current article. There is a section on this children in Hitchcock and Shoemaker, and they feature in Defoe's Colonel Jack | Asile91 |
| Thief-taker | Lacks historical section. | Altereli (talk) 18:19, 16 October 2015 (UTC) |
| Penal transportation | Lacks history, 17th & 18th c; 1718 Transportation Act. | Gio1291 (talk) 20:37, 19 October 2015 (UTC) |
| Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies (Defoe's pamphlet) | The text is on Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32404 | irene1209 |
| The watch | Expand "Watchman in England" paragraph | Infinitas.is (talk) 08:15, 13 October 2015 (UTC) |
| Tyburn gallows | Expand "History" paragraph | Elia7491 (talk) 21:46, 18 October 2015 (UTC) |
Sources:
editThe following are a SELECTION of up-to-date, reliable sources; most have good reading lists. NB this list is a rough guide - not properly formatted as a reference list!ù
- J.M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 1986
- J.M. Beattie, Policing and Prosecution in London, 1660-1750 2001
- J.M.Beattie, The First English Detectives : The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750-1840 20
- Ian A. Bell, Literature and Crime in Augustan England, London 1991
- John Brewer & John A Styles, An ungovernable people : the English and their law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, New Brunswick, NJ., Rutgers University Press, 1980
- J. Clegg (2004), Reforming Informing in the Long Eighteenth-Century in TEXTUS, vol. 17, pp. 337-356 (ISSN 1824-3967) Link al documento: 10278/25811 abstract
- J. Clegg Inventing Organised Crime. Daniel Defoe’s Jonathan Wild in M. Curreli, F. Ciompi, Many voicéd fountains: Studi di anglistica e comparatistica in onore di Elsa Linguanti, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, vol. N.S. 10, pp. 214-234 (ISBN 9788846707888) (Articolo su libro) Link al documento: 10278/26691
- J. Clegg (2008), Popular Law Enforcement in Moll Flanders in TEXTUS, vol. 21, pp. 523-546 (ISSN 1824-3967) Link al documento: 10278/26656 abstract (photocopy of essay available)
- J. Clegg (2015) The Prosecution and Trial of Moll Flanders in DIGITAL DEFOE, vol. 7, pp. nd-nd (ISSN 1948-1802) (Articolo su rivista) URL correlato Link al documento: 10278/44839 abstract
- J. S. Cockburn, ed., Crime in England 1550-1800 ,1977. (Includes Linebaugh on the Ordinary of Newgate)
- Lee Davison and T. Hitchcock and T. Keirn and R. Shoemaker, ed. Stilling the Grumbling Hive
- English Historical Documents http://www.englishhistoricaldocuments.com/document/view.html?id=4144
- Gerald Howson, Thief-Taker General: the rise and fall of Jonathan Wild.London, Hutchinson, 1970. (now available BALI)
- Early English Ballad Archive : http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu
- Hal Gladfelder, Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth Century England: Beyond the Law 2001
- Paul Griffiths, Lost Londons : change, crime, and control in the capital city, 1550-1660 Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Tim Hitchcock & Robert Shoemaker, Tales from the Hanging Court 2006
- Peter King, Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820 2000
- John H. Langbein, The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial 2003
- David Lemmings, Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain 1700-1850 201*
- Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged 2003
- Andrea McKenzie, Tyburn's Martyrs 2007*
- Maximilian Novak, Defoe Master of Fictions 2000
- J.A. Sharpe, Crime in Early Modern England, 1984
- J.A. Sharpe, 'Last Dying speeches': Religion, Ideology and Public Execution in Seventeenth-Century England. Past and Present, 107 (1985)
- Elaine Reynolds, Before the Bobbies: The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830 1998
- Robert B. Shoemaker, ‘Print and the Female Voice: Representations of Women’s Crime in London, 1690–1735’ Gender & History, Vol.22 No.1 April 2010, pp. 75–91. See ISA.
- Robert B. Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment 1991
- Robert B. Shoemaker, ‘The Street Robber and the Gentleman Highwayman: Changing Representations and Perceptions of Robbery in London, 1690-1800’, Cultural and Social History 3 (2006), pp. 381-405.
- Robert Shoemaker, "Print Culture and the Creation of public Knowledge about Crime in 18th-Century London" in Knepper, Doak and Shapland, eds., Urban Crime Prevention, Surveillance, and Restorative Justice, Boca Raton FL, CRC Press, 2009, pp.1-22.
- Alexander Smith, The History of the Lives of the Most Noted Highwaymen.*
- Gillian Spraggs, Outlaws and Highwaymen 2001. See also www.outlawsandhighwaymen.com
- www.oldbaileyonline.org. NB Citation Guide "Users who wish to cite material from the website in publications should, as with all internet publications, cite the URL (www.oldbaileyonline.org) and the date on which the website was consulted. Additionally, they should also cite the version number (i.e. 7.0), found in the bottom left of every page on this site. This website is updated at least once a year, and including the version number allows others to trace your research processThe OBO tells you how to cite each trial (Click on "Cite this trial", copy and paste) "
* The titles marked * are not in Ca' Foscari libraries, but I have copies and am happy to lend them if needed. I have uploaded into my ISA folder a list of sources which are in Ca' Foscari libraries.
For articles in scholarly journals don't forget to look in jstor, a data base accessible to Ca' Foscari students through the Sistema Bibliotecario. (For courses on use of Ca' Foscari electronic resources see:
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