Street sociability [ Cities ]
… (London: Routledge, 1998). It was not merely that the urban streetscape was a location of imaginative journeying. In law, governance and regulation, and in non-fiction accounts, streets in particular took on an ever more central place. … including a uniquely generous set of rewards, and an associated romantic culture. Most crimes prosecuted under these laws did not involve horses and a demand to ‘stand and deliver’ . Instead they were what would now be thought of as … and Societies for Moral Reform, 1688-1800’, Journal of British Studies, 2007: 46(2): 290-319. 12 . Gillian Spraggs, Outlaws and Highwaymen: The Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (London: Pimlico, …
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