Civil vengeance : literature, culture, and early modern revenge /

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Author / Creator:	King, Emily L., 1982- author.
Imprint:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xiii, 170 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
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. Civil society in literature. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan. English literature -- Early modern. Revenge in literature. Revenge -- Social aspects. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11931389

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ISBN:	9781501739651 1501739654
Notes:	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"--
Other form:	Online version: King, Emily L., 1982- author. Civil vengeance Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501739668

Table of 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?.

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