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852285
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King, Emily L.,1982-
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| Title & Author
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Civil vengeance : : literature, culture, and early modern revenge /\ Emily L. King.
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| Publication Statement
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Ithaca :: Cornell University Press,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages)
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| ISBN
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1501739662
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: 1501739670
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: 9781501739668
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: 9781501739675
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9781501739651
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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?
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| Abstract
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"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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Civil society in literature.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
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Revenge in literature.
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Revenge-- Social aspects-- England-- History.
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Civil society in literature.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.
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English literature-- Early modern.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Shakespeare.
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Revenge in literature.
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Revenge-- Social aspects.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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822/.309353
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| LC Classification
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PR658.R45K56 2019
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