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Becoming Criminal:

Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England
  • ISBN-13: 9780801868085
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Bryan Reynolds
  • Price: AUD $113.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2002
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Medieval history [HBLC1]
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In this book Bryan Reynolds argues that early modern England experienced a sociocultural phenomenon, unprecedented in English history, which has been largely overlooked by historians and critics. Beginning in the 1520s, a distinct ''criminal culture'' of beggars, vagabonds, confidence tricksters, prostitutes, and gypsies emerged and flourished. This community defined itself through its criminal conduct and dissident thought and was, in turn, officially defined by and against the dominant conceptions of English cultural normality. Examining plays, popular pamphlets, laws, poems, and scholarly work from the period, Reynolds demonstrates that this criminal culture, though diverse, was united by its own ideology, language, and aesthetic. Using his transversal theory, he shows how the enduring presence of this criminal culture markedly influenced the mainstream culture's aesthetic sensibilities, socioeconomic organization, and systems of belief. He maps the effects of the public theater's transformative force of transversality, such as through the criminality represented by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Dekker, on both Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the scholarship devoted to it.


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Preface

Acknowledgments



ONE State Power, Cultural Dissidence, Transversal Power

TWO Becoming Gypsy, Criminal Culture, Becoming Transversal



THREE Communal Departure, Criminal Language, Dissident Consolidation



FOUR Social Spatialization, Criminal Praxis, Transversal Movement



FIVE Antitheatrical Discourse, Transversal Theater, Criminal Intervention



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""Becoming Criminal's transversal theory performs a valuable service in reconceptualizing early modern English criminality and linking it to some of the period's most important institutions and discourses.""

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