Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature / / Laura Seymour.

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• VerfasserIn: Seymour, Laura,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Series Editor’s Preface --; Introduction: The Body at Play in Early Modern Texts --; 1. Ungracious Grace: Proprioception and Staging Taste in Thomas Dekker’s If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is in It (1611) --; 2. Walking Without God – (Mis)Learning Through the Gait in Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache (1599 and 1604) and James Mabbe’s The Rogue (1622) --; 3. Plain Plasticity – Thomas Ellwood’s The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood (1714) --; 4. Chaste and Silent – Again. Vitality and the Bound and Loosed Body in I.T.’s Grim the Collier of Croydon; or, The Devil and His Dame (c. 1600) --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474491822; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783110780390
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474491822
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Laura Seymour.

Examines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behaviorBroadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural normsBrings together a variety of texts that are not usually considered side by side (Elizabethan and Jacobean devil plays, non-conformist life writing, picaresque prose), using this carefully-chosen mix of texts to explore social norms as a generic concernProvides a definitive study of texts lacking a substantial critical apparatus, like Grim the Collier of CroydonComparatively analyses early modern Anglophone texts alongside Spanish picaresque prose thus opening out new avenues in comparative literary studies Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social milieu, congregation and family. The book encompasses the period from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, examining early modern shrew and devil plays, picaresque and rogue literature, and Quaker life-writing. Refusing to Behave examines the ways in which Thomas Dekker, Thomas Ellwood, Mateo Alemán and his translator James Mabbe, and the anonymous author of Grim the Collier of Croydon use textual tricks to provoke bodily responses in readers, and also draw on readers’ bodily experiences to enrich their textual descriptions. This study broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural norms.