Rogues and early modern English culture [[electronic resource] /] / Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456079203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-59149-5; 9786612591495; 0-472-02516-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (425 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DionneCraig; MentzSteve
• Disciplina: 809/.93352694
• Soggetti: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Rogues and vagabonds in literature; Rogues and vagabonds - England - History - 16th century; Rogues and vagabonds - England - History - 17th century; Literature and society - England - History; Peddling - England - History; Vagrancy - England - History; Outlaws - England - History; Vagrancy in literature; Outlaws in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction: Rogues and Early Modern English Culture; Part 1 . Theories of the Rogue; Fashioning Outlaws: The Early Modern Rogue and Urban Culture; The Reckoning of Moll Cutpurse: A Transversal Enterprise; New Historicism, Historical Context, and the Literature of Roguery: The Case of Thomas Harman Reopened; Appendix: The Case of Nicholas Jennings Alias Blunt Before London's Court of Aldermen 13 January, 9 Elizabeth I (1567); The Counterfeit Vagrant: The Dynamic of Deviance in the Bridewell Court Records and the Literature of Roguery; Part 2 . Marketplaces and Rogue Economics; The Peddler and the Pawn: Why Did Tudor England Consider Peddlers to Be Rogues?"Masters of Their Occupation": Labor and Fellowship in the Cony-Catching Pamphlets; Making Vagrancy (In)visible: The Economics of Disguise in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets; Part 3 . Rogues and the Early Modern City; Sin City and the "Urban Condom": Rogues, Writing, and the Early Modern Urban Environment; Magic Books: Cony-Catching and the Romance of Early Modern London; Part 4 . Typologies of the Rogue; Vagabond Veterans: The Roguish Company of Martin Guerreand Henry V; Black Acts: Textual Labor and Commercial Deceit in Dekker's Lantern and CandlelightEnglishing the Rogue, "Translating" the Irish: Fantasies of Incorporation and Early Modern English National Identity; The Ambivalent Rogue: Moll Flanders as Modern Pícara; Afterword: (Re)presenting the Early Modern Rogue; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue