King, Emily L.. Civil vengeance : literature, culture, and early modern revenge

Folger bibliographic ID: 358172
Folger holdings ID: 506531

"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"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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?

Extended title: Civil vengeance : literature, culture, and early modern revenge / Emily L. King

English drama English literature Revenge in literature Civil society in literature Revenge England

author: King, Emily L., 1982-