{"product_id":"civil-vengeance-literature-culture-and-early-modern-revenge-hardback-9781501739651","title":"Civil Vengeance; Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge (Hardback) 9781501739651","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCivil Vengeance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmily L. King (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501739651\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e186 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an enjoyably ambitious, sophisticated, and subtle rethinking of the ways in which revenge permeated and preoccupied early modern English culture.\u003c\/p\u003e (Modern Language Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is revenge, and what purpose does it serve?\u003c\/b\u003e On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage—the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/i\u003e—emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody \"revenge plays\" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCivil Vengeance\u003c\/i\u003e, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of society—church, law, and education—relied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragedies (including Marston's \u003ci\u003eAntonio's Revenge\u003c\/i\u003e and Kyd's \u003ci\u003eThe Spanish Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e) alongside a new archive that includes conduct manuals, legal and political documents, and sermons. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, \u003ci\u003eCivil Vengeance\u003c\/i\u003e provides new insights into the manner by which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Note on Citation\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Playing the Long Game\u003cbr\u003e 1. Teaching Revenge: Social Aspirations and the Fragmented Subject of Early Modern Conduct Books\u003cbr\u003e 2. Feeling Revenge: Emotional Transmission and Contagious Vengeance in Donne's Deaths Duell\u003cbr\u003e 3. Fantasizing about Revenge: Vagrancy and the Formation of the Social Body in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller\u003cbr\u003e 4. Commemorating Revenge: Mourning, Memory, and Retributive Alternatives in the English Interregnum\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: What Remains of Civil Vengeance?\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607783141656,"sku":"9781501739651","price":40.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/civil-vengeance-literature-culture-and-early-modern-revenge-hardback-9781501739651","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}