ENGL 2706Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Newgate Calendar, Newgate Novel, True Crime
29 Sep 2015
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The newgate calendar and the newgate novel as popular fiction. Introduction: true crime as a genre of popular fiction. Broadsides: criminal or execution broadsides, commodification of crime (ex. recording confessions and selling them, the ballads living on in the broadsides, distinction between fact and fiction? (ex. I writes ) becoming blurred: persistence of ballad: he mixed with a crowd about two ballad-singers, the. Journalism (the news itself being important about bringing attention to the genre) subject being about sheppard . The newgate calendar: expensive anthologies, compilations of broadsheets sold at public executions, chaplains" account; confessions, first in 1773: 5 volume newgate calendar, the newgate calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious. Illustrations present characters who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of england since the commencement of the eighteenth century; with anecdotes and last exclamations of sufferers.
