The thief-taker hangings : how Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Wild, and Jack Sheppard captivated London and created the celebrity criminal / Aaron Skirboll.
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TextPublisher: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2014]Description: xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780762791484 (hbk.)
- 0762791489 (hbk.)
- Crime and the press -- Great Britain -- 18th century
- Sensationalism in journalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Criminals -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
- Tabloid newspapers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- London (England) -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
- Wild, Jonathan, 1682?-1725
- Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
- HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
- TRUE CRIME / General
- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
- Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724
- Wild, Jonathan, 1682?-1725
- Crime and the press
- Criminals
- Sensationalism in journalism
- Social history
- Tabloid newspapers
- England -- London
- Great Britain
- 1700 - 1799
- 070.4/493649421 23
- PN5124.C74 S55 2014
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Chronicles the invention of scandal journalism by Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Wild, and Jack Sheppard.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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