The End of Conduct : : "Grobianus" and the Renaissance Text of the Subject /

The End of Conduct : : "Grobianus" and the Renaissance Text of the Subject / / Barbara Correll.

Grobianus et Grobiana, a little-known but key Renaissance text, is the starting point for this examination of indecency, conduct, and subject formation in the early modern period. First published in 1549, Friedrich Dedekind's ironic poem recommends the most disgusting behavior—indecency—as a me...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Correll, Barbara,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1996
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Author’s Note: Texts, Translations, translatio
  • Introduction: Indecent Ironies and the End of Conduct
  • 1. Reading Grobianus: The Crisis of the Body in the Sixteenth Century
  • 2. Malleable Material, Models of Power: Woman in Erasmus's ‘Marriage Group" and Good Manners in Boys
  • 3. Reading Grobianus; The Subject at Work in the “laborinth" of Simplicity
  • 4. Grobiana in Grobianus; The Sexual Politics of Civility
  • 5. Scheidt’s Grobianus; Revolting Bodies, Vernacular Discipline, National Character
  • 6. Gulls from Grobians: Dekkers Guls Home-booke and the Circulation of the Body in Renaissance England
  • Notes
  • Index

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