Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature / / Laura Seymour.

Examines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behaviorBroadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural normsBrings to...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (128 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Introduction: The Body at Play in Early Modern Texts
  • 1. Ungracious Grace: Proprioception and Staging Taste in Thomas Dekker’s If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is in It (1611)
  • 2. Walking Without God – (Mis)Learning Through the Gait in Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache (1599 and 1604) and James Mabbe’s The Rogue (1622)
  • 3. Plain Plasticity – Thomas Ellwood’s The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood (1714)
  • 4. Chaste and Silent – Again. Vitality and the Bound and Loosed Body in I.T.’s Grim the Collier of Croydon; or, The Devil and His Dame (c. 1600)
  • Index