Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature

ISBN-13: 9781474491808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

SEYMOUR LAURA

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Body At Play in Early Modern Texts

Chapter 1: Ungracious Grace: Proprioception and Staging Taste in Thomas Dekker’s If This Be Not a Good Play The Devil is In It
The Devil Saying Grace: Folklore and Oxymoron
A Gust of Wind that Fans the Fire: Monks Hotting Up
Mistrusting the Self
Conclusion

Chapter 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)
Guzmán’s Pedagogical Texts: God and the Beggar’s Book
Conclusion: Against Learning – Guzmán and the Widow

Chapter 3: Plain Plasticity— Thomas Ellwood’s The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood (1714)
Masculinity and Self-Shaping: A Simple Perspective?
Conclusion

Chapter 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)
Tyed Tongues
Vitality: Outside of Language
Conclusion