Civil vengeance : literature, culture, and early modern revenge / Emily L. King
- Author
- King, Emily L., 1982-
- Published
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Physical Description
- xiii, 170 pages ; 24 cm
- 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?.
- 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"--
- Subject(s)
- 1500-1700
- English drama—Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600—History and criticism
- English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism
- Revenge in literature
- Civil society in literature
- Revenge—Social aspects—England—History
- English drama—Early modern and Elizabethan
- English literature—Early modern
- Revenge—Social aspects
- England
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781501739651 hardcover alkaline paper
1501739654 hardcover alkaline paper - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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