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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and index
1 - Introduction: Hermeneutics, the Eighteenth Century, and the Challenge of Criminal Literature -- - 2 - Economy and Extravagance: Criminal Origin in Lillo's London Merchant and Prevost's Manon Lescaut -- - 3 - Greatness, Criminality, and Masculinity: Subversive Celebration and the Failure of Satire in Fielding's Jonathan Wild -- - 4 - Criminal Kin: Gendered Tragedy, Subversion of Inversion, and the Fear of the Feminine in Schiller's Robbers and Sade's Justine -- - 5 - The Tyranny of Form: Defense, Romance, and the Pursuit of the Criminal Text in Godwin's Caleb Williams and Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas -- - 6 - Conclusion: Resistance, Metaphysics and the Aesthetics of Failure in Modern Criminal Literature
