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forging signatures, telling lies...impersonating practically anybody.
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the romantic history of Newgate: topos
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the romantic history of Newgate
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not retribution or rehabilitation, but a secret third, more complex thing
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John Wick is a (Lapsed) Reformed Rake
pierced through the heart, but never killed
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non-romance romance, #3: the court as grotesque body
Bleak House (Charles Dickens, 1853) and All the Beauty and the Bloodshead (dir. Laura Poitras, 2022)
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the romantic history of Newgate: foundations
In the most recent newsletter in this series, I wrote about the history of legal punishment in England. Newgate as a discrete location is even older…
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the ecstasy and the agony
pregnancy, childbirth and what historical romance can't quite look at
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the romantic history of Newgate: underpinnings
This is part II of a larger project I am doing on the history of Newgate Prison in romance novels. The final product of the project will be a much…
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non-romance romance, #2: A Day in the Country (1946, dir. Jean Renoir)
adaptations of weather and consent
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the romantic history of Newgate
an introduction
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restorative romance
historical romance and justice, with grace and anguish
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