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Civil vengeance : literature, culture, and early modern revenge / Emily L. King.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR658.R45 K56 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Emily L., 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revenge--Social aspects.
- History.
- Revenge.
- England.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Revenge in literature.
- Civil society in literature.
- Revenge--Social aspects--England--History.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- English literature--Early modern.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 170 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Civil Vengeance changes how we understand retribution and uncovers an archive of revenge literature in early modern England. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, the author theorizes the manner in which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body in early modern England"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : playing the long game
- Teaching revenge : social aspiration and the fragmented subject of early modern conduct books
- Feeling revenge : emotional transmission and contagious vengeance in Donne's Deaths duell
- Fantasizing about revenge : vagrancy and the formation of the social body in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Nashe's The unfortunate traveller
- Commemorating revenge : mourning, memory, and retributive alternatives in the English interregnum
- Afterword : what remains of civil vengeance?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: King, Emily L., 1982- author. Civil vengeance
- ISBN:
- 9781501739651
- 1501739654
- OCLC:
- 1078893138
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