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Author King, Emily L., 1982- author.

Title Civil vengeance : literature, culture, and early modern revenge / Emily L. King
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages)
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?
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2019)
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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
Civil society in literature
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
English literature -- Early modern
Revenge in literature
Revenge -- Social aspects
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019009150
ISBN 9781501739675
1501739662
9781501739668
1501739670