- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- General Editor’s Preface
- Introduction
- Editorial Note
- Note on British Currency before Decimalization
- 1 The Publishing Industry
- 2 Readers and Reading Practices
- 3 The Professionalization of Authorship
- 4 The Historical Novel
- 5 Gothic Fictions in the Nineteenth Century
- 6 The English <i>Bildungsroman</i>
- 7 The Silver Fork Novel
- 8 The Newgate Novel
- 9 The Sensation Novel
- 10 Children’s Fiction
- 11 The Domestic Novel
- 12 Charles Dickens
- 13 The Brontës and the Transformations of Romanticism
- 14 George Eliot and Intellectual Culture
- 15 Short Fiction and the Novel
- 16 Multiple Narrators and Multiple Plots
- 17 Addressing the Reader
- 18 Realism and Theories of the Novel
- 19 Theatricality and the Novel
- 20 Aesthetic Theories
- 21 Modernization and the Organic Society
- 22 Place, Region, and Migration
- 23 The Novel and Empire
- 24 Nationalism and National Identities
- 25 International Influences
- 26 Radicalism and Reform
- 27 Parliament and the State
- 28 Science and the Novel
- 29 Religion and the Novel
- 30 Psychology and the Idea of Character
- 31 Gender Identities and Relationships
- Composite Bibliography
- Index of British Novelists, 1820–1880
- General Index
The Newgate Novel
The Newgate Novel
- Chapter:
- (p.122) 8 The Newgate Novel
- Source:
- The Oxford History of the Novel in English
- Author(s):
Heather Worthington
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines the development of the Newgate novel, so called because the characters of its stories might have been found in the pages of Newgate Calendars, a collection of criminal biographies that first appeared in 1728. These novels and others like them set in place themes and tropes that shaped early fictional narratives of crime. They incorporated factual events, revolved round the figure of the criminal, and promoted a didactic political and social message.
Keywords: crime fiction, Victorian fiction, Victorian novel, Newgate Calendars, crime narratives, criminal biographies
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- General Editor’s Preface
- Introduction
- Editorial Note
- Note on British Currency before Decimalization
- 1 The Publishing Industry
- 2 Readers and Reading Practices
- 3 The Professionalization of Authorship
- 4 The Historical Novel
- 5 Gothic Fictions in the Nineteenth Century
- 6 The English <i>Bildungsroman</i>
- 7 The Silver Fork Novel
- 8 The Newgate Novel
- 9 The Sensation Novel
- 10 Children’s Fiction
- 11 The Domestic Novel
- 12 Charles Dickens
- 13 The Brontës and the Transformations of Romanticism
- 14 George Eliot and Intellectual Culture
- 15 Short Fiction and the Novel
- 16 Multiple Narrators and Multiple Plots
- 17 Addressing the Reader
- 18 Realism and Theories of the Novel
- 19 Theatricality and the Novel
- 20 Aesthetic Theories
- 21 Modernization and the Organic Society
- 22 Place, Region, and Migration
- 23 The Novel and Empire
- 24 Nationalism and National Identities
- 25 International Influences
- 26 Radicalism and Reform
- 27 Parliament and the State
- 28 Science and the Novel
- 29 Religion and the Novel
- 30 Psychology and the Idea of Character
- 31 Gender Identities and Relationships
- Composite Bibliography
- Index of British Novelists, 1820–1880
- General Index
