"How I Had Liked This Villain! How I Had Admired Him!": A. J. Raffles and the Burglar as British Icon, 1898-1939

Wiener. (2014). "How I Had Liked This Villain! How I Had Admired Him!": A. J. Raffles and the Burglar as British Icon, 1898-1939.

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Year

2014

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• Gentleman Thief
  • Scholarship on Raffles shows how his stories used class position, athletic amateurism, an honor code, and social capital to invert the expected rough professional criminal.

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