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Includes bibliographical references and index
Fashioning outlaws : the early modern rogue and urban culture / Craig Dionne -- The reckoning of moll cutpurse : a transversal enterprise / Bryan Reynolds and Janna Segal -- New historicism, historical context, and the literature of roguery : the case of Thomas Harman reopened / A.L. Beier -- Appendix : The case of Nicholas Jennings alias Blunt before London's Court Of Alderman, 13 January, 9 Elizabeth I (1567) -- The counterfeit vagrant : the dynamic of deviance in the Bridewell court records and the literature of roguery / Martine van Elk -- The peddler and the pawn : why did Tudor England consider peddlers to be rogues? / Linda Woodbridge -- "Masters of their occupation" : labor and fellowship in the cony-catching pamphlets / Karen Helfand Bix -- Making vagrancy (in)visible : the economics of disguise in early modern rogue pamphlets / Patricia Fumerton -- Sin city and the "urban condom" : rogues, writing, and the early modern urban environment / Adam Hansen -- Magic books : cony-catching and the romance of early modern London / Steve Mentz -- Vagabond veterans : the roguish company of Martin Guerre and Henry V / Linda Bradley Salamon -- Black acts : textual labor and commercial deceit in Dekker's Lantern and candlelight / Laurie Ellinghausen -- Englishing the rogue, "translating" the Irish : fantasies of incorporation and early modern English national identity / Brooke A. Stafford -- The ambivalent rogue : Moll Flanders as modern Pícara / Tina Kuhlisch -- Afterword : (Re)presenting the early modern rogue / Arthur F. Kinney
"Rogues and Early Modern English Culture is a definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue. Under various names - rogues, vagrants, molls, doxies, vagabonds, cony-catchers, masterless men, caterpillars of the commonwealth - this group of marginal figures, poor men and women with no clear social place of identity, exploded onto the scene in sixteenth-century English history and culture. Early modern representations of the rogue or moll in pamphlets, plays, poems, ballads, historical records, and the infamous Tudor Poor Laws treated these characters as harbingers of emerging social, economic, and cultural changes." "This anthology features essays from prominent and emerging critics in the field of Renaissance studies and promises to attract considerable attention from a broad range of readers and scholars in literary studies and social history."--Jacket
