Civil Vengeance: Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge
Author:   Emily L. King
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
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Pages:   186
Publication Date:   15 September 2019
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Emily L. King
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781501739651


ISBN 10:   1501739654
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   15 September 2019
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Note on Citation Introduction: Playing the Long Game 1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early Modern Conduct Books 2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in Donne's Deaths Duell 3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller 4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in the English Interregnum Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance? Bibliography Index

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In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King vividly shows how the logic of revenge permeates civil society. Reaching far beyond conventional revenge tragedies, she illuminates systems of retaliation that are at once more refined and more brutal than we might expect. Civil Vengeance interweaves deft, innovative analysis with constant attentiveness to the ethics of communitarian bonds. -- Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University Emily L. King makes an ambitious and successful attempt to change our understanding of the concept of revenge in early modern English literary and cultural discourse. This book is refreshing, and offers a worthy reframing of the usual study of revenge plays. -- Marcela Kostihova, Hamline University, author of <I>Shakespeare in Transition</I>


This is an enjoyably ambitious, sophisticated, and subtle rethinking of the ways in which revenge permeated and preoccupied early modern English culture. * Modern Language Review *


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Emily L. King is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University.

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