Table of Contents

Introduction: Rogues and their Historians
Cheap Print and Rogue Pamphlets
Laughter, Tricksters, and Good Fellows
Trust, Sociability, and Criminal Networks
Turning Cavaliers into Rogues: Crime and Polemic in the Interregnum
Epilogue: Rogue Pamphlets after 1670
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

[An] impressive entry point into the world of rogue pamphlet production and the printing industry of London during the early modern period.
*SCRIPT AND PRINT*

For any student of seventeenth century social life, especially in the capital, this is a valuable resource, not only for its content but the references to previous work in the literature of the time.
*FACHRS NEWSLETTER*

Lena Liapi offers several new and compelling interpretations of the rogue literature phenomenon...a persuasive analysis of that literature, which could be applied to a wide range of texts beyond the limits of an artificially-constructed genre.
*REVIEWS IN HISTORY*

Liapi makes a compelling argument that rogue pamphlets can be read as a festive and merry genre, one that both celebrated and satirized the pleasures and dangers of urban life, probably attracting ordinary readers who were happy to laugh at others' mishaps.
*JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES*

[Stimulating] and engaging.
*ERAS JOURNAL*

In this very interestlng study, Lena Liapi seeks both to break down the boundaries between crime literature and other forms of popular print, and also to cross the boundary between literature and documentary evidence by examining crime pamphlets alongside some of the court records dealing with the crimes they described.
*SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL*