"Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for
those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of
early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or
both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically
central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and
literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues
represent the range, diversity, and tensions within early modern
scholarship, making this quite simply the best overview of their
significance then and now."
-Jonathan Dollimore, York University
""Rogues and Early Modern English Culture" is an up-to-date and
suggestive collection on a subject that all scholars of the early
modern period have encountered but few have studied in the range
and depth represented here."
-Lawrence Manley, Yale University
"A model of cross-disciplinary exchange, "Rogues and Early Modern
English Culture" foregrounds the figure of the rogue in a nexus of
early modern cultural inscriptions that reveals the provocation a
seemingly marginal figure offers to authorities and various forms
of authoritative understanding, then and now. The new and recent
work gathered here is an exciting contribution to early modern
studies, for both scholars and students."
-Alexandra W. Halasz, Dartmouth College
"Rogues and Early Modern English Culture" is a definitive
collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact
of the early modern rogue. Under various names-rogues, vagrants,
molls, doxies, vagabonds, cony-catchers, masterless men,
caterpillars of the commonwealth-this group of marginal figures,
poor men and women with no clear social place or identity,
explodedonto the scene in sixteenth-century English history and
culture. Early modern representations of the rogue or moll in
pamphlets, plays, poems, ballads, historical records, and the
infamous Tudor Poor Laws treated these characters as harbingers of
emerging social, economic, and cultural changes.
Images of the early modern rogue reflected historical developments
but also created cultural icons for mobility, change, and social
adaptation. The underclass rogue in many ways inverts the familiar
image of the self-fashioned gentleman, traditionally seen as the
literary focus and exemplar of the age, but the two characters have
more in common than courtiers or humanists would have admitted.
Both relied on linguistic prowess and social dexterity to manage
their careers, whether exploiting the politics of privilege at
court or surviving by their wits on urban streets.
Deftly edited by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, this anthology
features essays from prominent and emerging critics in the field of
Renaissance studies and promises to attract considerable attention
from a broad range of readers and scholars in literary studies and
social history.
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