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Civil Vengeance : Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge / Emily L. King.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501739668
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.309353 23
LOC classification:
  • PR658.R45 K56 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Citation -- Introduction: Playing the Long Game -- 1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early Modern Conduct Books -- 2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in Donne’s Deaths Duell -- 3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI and Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller -- 4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in the English Interregnum -- Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance? -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage—the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus—emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody "revenge plays" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture.In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of society—church, law, and education—relied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragedies (including Marston's Antonio's Revenge and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) alongside a new archive that includes conduct manuals, legal and political documents, and sermons. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to "idian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Citation -- Introduction: Playing the Long Game -- 1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early Modern Conduct Books -- 2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in Donne’s Deaths Duell -- 3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI and Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller -- 4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in the English Interregnum -- Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance? -- Bibliography -- Index

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What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage—the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus—emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody "revenge plays" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture.In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of society—church, law, and education—relied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragedies (including Marston's Antonio's Revenge and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) alongside a new archive that includes conduct manuals, legal and political documents, and sermons. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to "idian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body.

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In English.

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