Rogues and Early Modern English CultureCraig Dionne, Steve Mentz "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the range, diversity, and tensions within early modern scholarship, making this quite simply the best overview of their significance then and now." -Jonathan Dollimore, York University "Rogues and Early Modern English Culture is an up-to-date and suggestive collection on a subject that all scholars of the early modern period have encountered but few have studied in the range and depth represented here." -Lawrence Manley, Yale University "A model of cross-disciplinary exchange, Rogues and Early Modern English Culture foregrounds the figure of the rogue in a nexus of early modern cultural inscriptions that reveals the provocation a seemingly marginal figure offers to authorities and various forms of authoritative understanding, then and now. The new and recent work gathered here is an exciting contribution to early modern studies, for both scholars and students." -Alexandra W. Halasz, Dartmouth College Rogues and Early Modern English Culture is a definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue. Under various names-rogues, vagrants, molls, doxies, vagabonds, cony-catchers, masterless men, caterpillars of the commonwealth-this group of marginal figures, poor men and women with no clear social place or identity, exploded onto the scene in sixteenth-century English history and culture. Early modern representations of the rogue or moll in pamphlets, plays, poems, ballads, historical records, and the infamous Tudor Poor Laws treated these characters as harbingers of emerging social, economic, and cultural changes. Images of the early modern rogue reflected historical developments but also created cultural icons for mobility, change, and social adaptation. The underclass rogue in many ways inverts the familiar image of the self-fashioned gentleman, traditionally seen as the literary focus and exemplar of the age, but the two characters have more in common than courtiers or humanists would have admitted. Both relied on linguistic prowess and social dexterity to manage their careers, whether exploiting the politics of privilege at court or surviving by their wits on urban streets. Deftly edited by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, this anthology features essays from prominent and emerging critics in the field of Renaissance studies and promises to attract considerable attention from a broad range of readers and scholars in literary studies and social history. |
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... claims to expose a basic truth about the early modern city : " He that cannot dissemble cannot live . " Pamphlets like this one , along with evidence from contemporary woodcuts , military records , and mercantile tracts , accent the ...
... claims to expose a basic truth about the early modern city : " He that cannot dissemble cannot live . " Pamphlets like this one , along with evidence from contemporary woodcuts , military records , and mercantile tracts , accent the ...
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... poor farmer be bashful , and passeth by one of these shameless strum- pets , then will she verse it with him , and claim acquaintance of him , and , by some policy or other , fall aboard on him , 6. Rogues and Early Modern English Culture.
... poor farmer be bashful , and passeth by one of these shameless strum- pets , then will she verse it with him , and claim acquaintance of him , and , by some policy or other , fall aboard on him , 6. Rogues and Early Modern English Culture.
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... claims that " the discipline of historical context " replaces these formulations with more complex and interesting readings of rogue culture . Harman was no ordinary country squire , and he was not , it seems , a member of Kent's ...
... claims that " the discipline of historical context " replaces these formulations with more complex and interesting readings of rogue culture . Harman was no ordinary country squire , and he was not , it seems , a member of Kent's ...
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... claim in Greene's cony - catching pamphlets to expose early mod- ern rogues as " pestilent vipers of the commonwealth " is sincere , ironic , or ( most likely ) both , Mentz argues that the larger project of the pamphlets— creating a ...
... claim in Greene's cony - catching pamphlets to expose early mod- ern rogues as " pestilent vipers of the commonwealth " is sincere , ironic , or ( most likely ) both , Mentz argues that the larger project of the pamphlets— creating a ...
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... claim of moral purity appear hypocritical , since Moll's ethical admonitions pale before the indulgent description of her crimes . Moll's career remains morally ambiguous . She transgresses social conventions and is ruthless in the ...
... claim of moral purity appear hypocritical , since Moll's ethical admonitions pale before the indulgent description of her crimes . Moll's career remains morally ambiguous . She transgresses social conventions and is ruthless in the ...
Contents
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A Transversal Enterprise | 62 |
New Historicism Historical Context and the Literature | 98 |
The Dynamic of Deviance in | 120 |
Why Did Tudor England Consider | 143 |
Labor and Fellowship in | 171 |
Early Modern Urban Environment Adam Hansen | 213 |
ConyCatching and the Romance of Early | 240 |
The Roguish Company of Martin Guerre | 261 |
Textual Labor and Commercial Deceit in Dekkers | 294 |
Fantasies | 312 |
Moll Flanders as Modern PĂcara | 337 |
Representing the Early Modern Rogue | 361 |
Contributors | 382 |
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and/or argues behavior Beier Bridewell Bryan Reynolds Cambridge canting Carroll Caveat cony cony-catching pamphlets counterfeit court crime critical culture Dekker deviant discourse Early Modern England early modern English early modern rogue economic Elizabethan England English Renaissance essay fiction gender genre Greenblatt Greene Greene's Gresham Harman historicism historicist History Hobson identity ideology Irish Irish Travelers John Judges Kinney labor Laclau language literary London Mary Frith Mary/Moll Masterless Merchant Adventurers Middleton and Dekker's mobility Moll Cutpurse Moll Flanders Moll's Mollowe moral narrative nation Notable Discovery Pawn peddlers phlets picaresque picaresque novels play political poor potential practices punishment readers records representation Reynolds Roaring Girl Robert Greene rogue literature rogue pamphlets Royal Exchange Salgado Saxton scholars sexual Shakespeare social society soldiers story studies Sturdy Beggars subjective territory texts Thomas Thomas Dekker Thomas Harman tion trade transgressive transversal Tudor underworld urban vagabonds vagrants women Woodbridge