The Intricacies of Office: Constables, Thieves and the Uses of Literacy in Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack
Among the many duties of constables during the early modern period was that of ‘carrying’ suspects taken by ordinary people before justices and then to prison. Moll Flanders, and Colonel Jack are justifiably terrified when one arrives the scene, but on all occasions - except that of Moll’s last arre...
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Firenze University Press
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Early Modern Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/12547 |