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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Language: en
Pages: 354
Pages: 354
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-01 - Publisher: Springer Nature
Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2022, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 offers a unique account of the emergence of a new concepti
Language: en
Pages: 321
Pages: 321
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-05 - Publisher: Yale University Press
How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distributionIn this innovative book
Language: en
Pages: 225
Pages: 225
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature.
Language: en
Pages: 277
Pages: 277
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations.
