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Rogues and early modern English culture / Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Rogues and vagabonds in literature.
- Rogues and vagabonds--England--History--16th century.
- Rogues and vagabonds.
- Rogues and vagabonds--England--History--17th century.
- Literature and society--England--History.
- Literature and society.
- Peddling--England--History.
- Peddling.
- Vagrancy--England--History.
- Vagrancy.
- Outlaws--England--History.
- Outlaws.
- Vagrancy in literature.
- Outlaws in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (425 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786612591495
- 9781282591493
- 1282591495
- 9780472025169
- 0472025163
- OCLC:
- 816386250
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