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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... " : Labor and Fellowship in the Cony - Catching Pamphlets Karen Helfand Bix 171 Making Vagrancy ( In ) visible : The Economics of Disguise in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets Patricia Fumerton 193 PART 3. ROGUES AND THE EARLY MODERN CITY Sin ...
... " : Labor and Fellowship in the Cony - Catching Pamphlets Karen Helfand Bix 171 Making Vagrancy ( In ) visible : The Economics of Disguise in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets Patricia Fumerton 193 PART 3. ROGUES AND THE EARLY MODERN CITY Sin ...
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... rogue pamphlets , also called " cony - catching " pamphlets . These texts , which arrived on the literary scene after 1550 , describe the criminal underworld as an autonomous social space with different classes or " degrees " of thieves ...
... rogue pamphlets , also called " cony - catching " pamphlets . These texts , which arrived on the literary scene after 1550 , describe the criminal underworld as an autonomous social space with different classes or " degrees " of thieves ...
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... rogue's craft is so generally dispersed , so much a part of the repertoire of the streetwise urban reader , that now any " base mechanic " can take advantage of the " weakness in a lord . " The rogue pamphlets produce this mixture of ...
... rogue's craft is so generally dispersed , so much a part of the repertoire of the streetwise urban reader , that now any " base mechanic " can take advantage of the " weakness in a lord . " The rogue pamphlets produce this mixture of ...
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... pamphlets in his Notable Discovery , sometimes playing the rogue himself by plagiarizing huge passages of the previous printings and marketing them as eyewitness accounts of his own day - to - day interaction with London- ers . Much of ...
... pamphlets in his Notable Discovery , sometimes playing the rogue himself by plagiarizing huge passages of the previous printings and marketing them as eyewitness accounts of his own day - to - day interaction with London- ers . Much of ...
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... rogues and vagabonds found in these pamphlets became familiar characters in the novels and plays of London's print industry throughout the modern period , with recurring images of a thriving under- world whose tradition runs from Iago ...
... rogues and vagabonds found in these pamphlets became familiar characters in the novels and plays of London's print industry throughout the modern period , with recurring images of a thriving under- world whose tradition runs from Iago ...
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