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Enter the Press Gang
Daniel J. Ennis
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Description for Enter the Press Gang
Hardback. Num Pages: 219 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 499.
This book considers the eighteenth-century practice of violent naval recruitment known as impressment in the light of literary representations of its impact on British society. The author examines scenes that feature press-gangs in novels, plays, ballads, and personal narratives and shows how impressment reveals the ways genre is related to ideology.
This book considers the eighteenth-century practice of violent naval recruitment known as impressment in the light of literary representations of its impact on British society. The author examines scenes that feature press-gangs in novels, plays, ballads, and personal narratives and shows how impressment reveals the ways genre is related to ideology.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9780874137552
SKU
V9780874137552
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Ref
99-15
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