Vagrant Writing : : Social and Semiotic Disorders in the English Renaissance / / Barry Taylor.
Vagrant Writing addresses the semiotic dimension of social change in Renaissance England. From tracta against cosmetics to the Jonsonian masque, from coney-catching pamphlets to the theology of Hooker, Barry Taylor explores what happens to Tudor and Jacobean practices of writing when the ideology of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Vagrancy as Writing/Vagrant Writing
- 1. The Semiotics of Settlement: Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
- 2. Narcissus and the Usurer
- 3. George Gascoigne: Writing Vagrantly
- 4. 'The Instrumentality of Ornament': George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie
- 5. Mortality and the Utility of Courtship: Castiglione's Book of the Courtier
- 6. The Radiant and the Reflective: Courtly Authority and Crisis in Jonson's Masques and Cynthia's Revels
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index