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Becoming Criminal. Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England

Door Bryan Reynolds

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#213367
Titel	Becoming Criminal. Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England
Auteur	Reynolds, Bryan
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Johns Hopkins University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	0801868084
ISBN13	9780801868085
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	In this book Bryan Reynolds argues that early modern England experienced a sociocultural phenomenon, unprecedented in English history, which has been largely overlooked by historians and critics. Beginning in the 1520s, a distinct criminal culture of beggars, vagabonds, confidence tricksters, prostitutes, and gypsies emerged and flourished. This community defined itself through its criminal conduct and dissident thought and was, in turn,officially defined by and against the dominant conceptions of English cultural normality. Examining plays, popular pamphlets, laws, poems, and scholarly work from the period, Reynolds demonstrates that this criminal culture, though diverse, was united by its own ideology, language, and aesthetic. Using his transversal theory, he shows how the enduring pre... (Lees verder)sence of this criminal culture markedly influenced the mainstream culture's aesthetic sensibilities, socioeconomic organization, and systems of belief. He maps the effects of the public theater's transformative force of transversality, such as through the criminality represented by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Dekker, on both Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the scholarship devoted to it.
Pagina's	217
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 40,00

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