| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
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? |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Revenge in literature.
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Revenge in literature. |
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Civil society in literature.
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Civil society in literature. |
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Revenge -- Social aspects -- England -- History.
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Revenge -- Social aspects. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Revenge. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: King, Emily L., 1982- Civil vengeance. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501739651 (DLC) 2019008043 |
| ISBN |
9781501739675 (electronic book) |
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1501739662 (electronic book) |
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9781501739668 (electronic book) |
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1501739670 (electronic book) |
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9781501739651 |
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