Vibrations
Margaret Anne Doody, 5 August 1993
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in 18th-century Britain
by G.J. Barker-Benfield.
Chicago, 520 pp., £39.95, October 1992,0 226 03713 4 Show More
by G.J. Barker-Benfield.
Chicago, 520 pp., £39.95, October 1992,
Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context
by Ann Jessie van Sant.
Cambridge, 143 pp., £27.95, January 1993,0 521 40226 3 Show More
by Ann Jessie van Sant.
Cambridge, 143 pp., £27.95, January 1993,
Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the 18th Century
by Philip Rawlings.
Routledge, 222 pp., £40, October 1992,0 415 05056 1 Show More
by Philip Rawlings.
Routledge, 222 pp., £40, October 1992,
Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830
by Rictor Norton.
Gay Men’s Press, 302 pp., £12.95, September 1992,0 85449 188 0 Show More
by Rictor Norton.
Gay Men’s Press, 302 pp., £12.95, September 1992,
“... the breakdown of the old apprenticeship system and the uncertain life of circulating labour. As Philip Rawlings points out, in introducing the criminal biographies that make up Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices, a poor apprentice (like Jack Shepherd, the apprentice-turned-criminal whose case he considers) was tied into a situation with no future. For ... ”
