Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates Andrew McCluggage Kristin Heyer provides new and

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Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates Andrew McCluggage Kristin Heyer provides new andErin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less respectable but no less celebrated eighteenth century masculine types: the rake, the highwayman, and the pirate. Mackie traces the emergence of these character types to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when traditional aristocratic authority was increasingly challenged. She argues that the development of the modern polite gentleman as a male