| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 230 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Early modern cultural studies, 1500-1700 |
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Early modern cultural studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Gendered Geographies of Vice; Part I: Redefining Urban Masculinity: Taverns, Universities, and Gaming Houses; 1 Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play; 2 University of Vice: Drink, Gentility, and Masculinity in Oxford, Cambridge, and London; 3 The Social Stakes of Gambling in Early Modern London; Part II: Sexualizing the City: Cathedrals, Brothels, and Barbershops; 4 Carnal Geographies: Mocking and Mapping the Religious Body |
| Summary |
Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops - in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined innocent young men |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Masculinity in literature.
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Vice in literature.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- English.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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English literature -- Early modern
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Masculinity in literature
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Moral conditions
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Vice in literature
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Männlichkeit
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Laster
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Engelsk litteratur -- historia.
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Engelsk litteratur -- etik och moral.
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Maskulinitet i litteraturen.
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| SUBJECT |
London (England) -- Moral conditions -- History
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| Subject |
England -- London
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London
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bailey, Amanda, 1966-
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Hentschell, Roze
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| ISBN |
9780230106147 |
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0230106145 |
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