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Civil vengeance : literature, culture, and early modern revenge

Title
Civil vengeance : literature, culture, and early modern revenge / Emily L. King.
Author
King, Emily L., 1982-
Publication
  • Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Subject
  • 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
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
Call Number
JFE 19-11404
ISBN
  • 9781501739651
  • 1501739654
LCCN
  • 2019008043
  • 40029360702
OCLC
1078893138
Author
King, Emily L., 1982- author.
Title
Civil vengeance : literature, culture, and early modern revenge / Emily L. King.
Publisher
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Description
xiii, 170 pages ; 24 cm
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Chronological Term
1500-1700
Other Form:
Online version: King, Emily L., 1982- Civil vengeance. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501739668 (DLC) 2019009150
Other Standard Identifier
40029360702
Research Call Number
JFE 19-11404
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