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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780704903321

Titolo

Rogues and early modern English culture / / Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, editors

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

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