Civil Vengeance : Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge /

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"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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: King, Emily L., 1982- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Revenge > Social aspects.
Revenge in literature.
English literature > Early modern.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
Civil society in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Vengeance > Aspect social > Angleterre > Histoire.
Societe civile dans la litterature.
Vengeance dans la litterature.
Theâtre anglais > 16e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Revenge > Social aspects > England > History.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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?

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