UNDERWORLD LONDON: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE CAPITAL CITY

Book ID/图书代码： 12290012B56402

English Summary/英文概要： Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne’er do wells, taking in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses and con-men, through to the Gordon Riots and Highway robbery of the 18thcentury and the rise of prisons, the police and the Victorian era of incarceration. As well as the crimes, Arnold also looks at the grotesque punishments meted out to those who transgressed the law throughout London’s history - from the hangings, drawings and quarterings at Tyburn over 500 years to being boiled in oil at Smithfield. This popular historian also investigates the influence of London’s criminal classes on the literature of the 19thand 20thcenturies, and ends up with our old favourites, the Krays and Soho gangs of the 50s and 60s.

London’s crimes have changed over the centuries, both in method and execution. Underworld London traces these developments, from the highway robberies of the eighteenth century, made possible by the constant traffic of wealthy merchants in and out of the city, to the beatings, slashings and poisonings of the Victorian era.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 书在开篇就介绍了Tyburn的大环境，然后展现在读者面前的是一座城墙内的伦敦，有用来斩首和残暴拘禁的伦敦塔，有伊丽莎白时期的犯罪行为，有扒手和骗子，有暴乱和街头抢劫，直到十八世纪监狱兴起，警察和维多利亚时代才改变了这些。除了犯罪，Arnold还研究了壁画上那些奇怪的刑罚以及伦敦历史上的一些法律，包括Tyburn有吊死等形式，在Smithfield甚至还有把人放进油锅里煮这样的刑罚。这个颇受欢迎的历史学家还研究了伦敦的犯罪历史对于19和20世纪文学的影响，其深远可能涉及了50或者60年代非常常见的Kray以及苏活区匪帮等等设定。

那么多年以来伦敦的犯罪行为一直在改变，不仅是方法上，也在对于犯罪行为的惩戒上。本书追踪了其发展的历程，原本在十八世纪进行拦路抢劫的犯人因为有了固定的交通流量以及富人们进进出出而转向了维多利亚时期的殴打、谋杀以及毒杀等等。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：最吓人的恐怖片放在这段历史面前都显得很无辜了，因为这是关于伦敦的犯罪史。Catharine Arnold已经出版过四本有关伦敦的性、疯子、放荡以及死亡的社会历史著作，维持着她一贯的高标准，从不模糊任何事实。从她的书里能看到持不同宗教意见的人被活埋，叛徒的头颅被挂在街上以及伦敦桥上示众，大群的看客围观斩首等等。我们能从中发现伦敦是如何变成了犯罪行为的污水坑，抢劫、盗窃、扒窃和嫖娼横行，直到20世纪。（Press Association）

’The goriest horror film seems tame beside this history of law-breaking and legal retribution in London. Catharine Arnold has already published four excellent social histories of sex, madness, debauchery and death in the capital and maintains her usual high standard here, never flinching from grisly facts. We learn of religious dissenters burned alive at Smithfield; heads of traitors on display in the streets and at London Bridge; huge crowds of boisterous onlookers attending public hangings of men and women at Tyburn and in later years at Newgate prison. Above all we see vividly how London became a cesspit of crime, with robbery, burglary, pick-pocketing and prostitution on a vast scale, right up to the 20th century’ --Press Association

’...Claude Du Vall, the prince of highwaymen, the most romantic villain London ever knew. His admirers said of him: ’’if male thou art, look to your purse if female, to thy heart’’. Part of King Charles II s retinue while in exile, he came to England from France after the civil war, when the King was restored to the throne in 1660. At first he was the teenage footman to the Duke of Richmond, but soon discovered a genius for crime. He once robbed the wealthy farmers drinking at a pub on market day, by strapping horns and cowhide to a mastiff dog and lowering it down the chimney. The drinkers thought the devil had emerged from the fireplace, and in the ensuing chaos Du Vall made off with their moneybags. From stunts in provincial pubs, he soon graduated to the more romantic occupation of highwayman...That three-mile stretch of road, which today leads roughly from the Old Bailey to Marble Arch, along Fleet Street and Oxford Street, is the focus of a new book by historian Catharine Arnold’ --Daily Mail

About the Author/作者介绍： Catharine Arnold在剑桥大学学习英语，并拥有一个心理学的硕士学位。她是记者、学者和通俗历史学家，她此前的著作包括一本小说《Lost Time》，曾获得Betty Trask奖，以及备受好评的伦敦系列前三部《Necropolis: London and Its Dead》、《Bedlam》以及《City of Sin》。她现居诺丁汉。

Catharine Arnold read English at Cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology. A journalist, academic and popular historian, her previous books include the novel Lost Time, winner of a Betty Trask award, and the acclaimed Necropolis: London and Its Dead, Bedlam and City ofSin, the first three volumes of her ’London’ series. She lives in Nottingham.

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