1.

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812426203321

Autore

Alvarez R. Michael <1964->

Titolo

Evaluating elections : a handbook of methods and standards / / R. Michael Alvarez, Lonna Rae Atkeson, Thad E. Hall [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-79433-7

1-316-09020-5

1-139-22654-1

1-139-78296-7

1-107-25477-9

1-139-77997-4

1-139-77693-2

1-283-81803-5

1-139-77845-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 173 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

POL000000

Disciplina

324.6/5

Soggetti

Elections - United States

Elections

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Performance-Based Evaluation of Election Administration; 1. The electoral ecosystem; 2. Easily available data for performance evaluation; 3. Measuring the experiences of voters; 4. Measuring the performance of poll workers; 5. Auditing the election ecosystem; 6. Election observation.

Sommario/riassunto

In competitive and contested democratic elections, insuring integrity is critical. Evaluating Elections shows why systematic analysis and reporting of election performance is important and how data-driven performance management can be used by election officials to improve elections. The authors outline how performance management systems can function in elections and their benefits for voters, candidates and political parties. Journalists, election administrators and even candidates often ask whether recent elections were run well, whether there were problems in the administration of a particular state's elections and how well elections were run across the country. The authors explain that such questions are difficult to answer because of the complexity of election administration and because there is currently no standard or accepted framework to assess the general quality of an election.