Rogues and Early Modern English Culture.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Rogues and Early Modern English Culture -- Part 1 . Theories of the Rogue -- Fashioning Outlaws: The Early Modern Rogue and Urban Culture -- The Reckoning of Moll Cutpurse: A Transversal Enterprise -- New Historicism, Historical Context, and the Literature of Roguery: The Case of Thomas Harman Reopened -- Appendix: The Case of Nicholas Jennings Alias Blunt Before London's Court of Aldermen 13 January, 9 Elizabeth I (1567) -- The Counterfeit Vagrant: The Dynamic of Deviance in the Bridewell Court Records and the Literature of Roguery -- Part 2 . Marketplaces and Rogue Economics -- The Peddler and the Pawn: Why Did Tudor England Consider Peddlers to Be Rogues? -- "Masters of Their Occupation": Labor and Fellowship in the Cony-Catching Pamphlets -- Making Vagrancy (In)visible: The Economics of Disguise in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets -- Part 3 . Rogues and the Early Modern City -- Sin City and the "Urban Condom": Rogues, Writing, and the Early Modern Urban Environment -- Magic Books: Cony-Catching and the Romance of Early Modern London -- Part 4 . Typologies of the Rogue -- Vagabond Veterans: The Roguish Company of Martin Guerreand Henry V -- Black Acts: Textual Labor and Commercial Deceit in Dekker's Lantern and Candlelight -- Englishing the Rogue, "Translating" the Irish: Fantasies of Incorporation and Early Modern English National Identity -- The Ambivalent Rogue: Moll Flanders as Modern Pícara -- Afterword: (Re)presenting the Early Modern Rogue -- Contributors -- Index.

A definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue.

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