Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture) - Softcover

Seymour, Laura

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ISBN 10: 1474491812 ISBN 13: 9781474491815

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2024

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Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social milieu, congregation and family. The book encompasses the period from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, examining early modern shrew and devil plays, picaresque and rogue literature, and Quaker life-writing. Refusing to Behave examines the ways in which Thomas Dekker, Thomas Ellwood, Mateo Alemán and his translator James Mabbe, and the anonymous author of Grim the Collier of Croydon use textual tricks to provoke bodily responses in readers, and also draw on readers’ bodily experiences to enrich their textual descriptions. This study broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural norms.

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Laura Seymour is a Stipendiary Lecturer in English at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She has published on Shakespeare, cognition, early modern radical religion, neurodiversity, seventeenth-century poetry and prose, and early modern hell literature. Her current research project deals with neurodiversity in early modern European texts.

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Examines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behaviorRefusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social milieu, congregation and family. The book encompasses the period from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, examining early modern shrew and devil plays, picaresque and rogue literature, and Quaker life-writing. Refusing to Behave examines the ways in which Thomas Dekker, Thomas Ellwood, Mateo Alemán and his translator James Mabbe, and the anonymous author of Grim the Collier of Croydon use textual tricks to provoke bodily responses in readers, and also draw on readers’ bodily experiences to enrich their textual descriptions. This study broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural norms.Laura Seymour is a Stipendiary Lecturer in English at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1474491812
• ISBN 13: 9781474491815
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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