Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550-1650

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-38499-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Reihe: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops - in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined innocent young men.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bailey, A.

Hentschell, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Gendered Geographies of Vice; A.Bailey & R.Hentschell PART I: REDEFINING URBAN MASCULINITY: TAVERNS, UNIVERSITIES, AND GAMING HOUSES Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play; G.Bloom University of Vice: Drink, Gentility, and Masculinity in Oxford, Cambridge, and London; L.Ellinghausen The Social Stakes of Gambling in Early Modern London; A.Zucker PART II: SEXUALIZING THE CITY: CATHEDRALS, BROTHELS, AND BARBERSHOPS Carnal Geographies: Mocking and Mapping the Religious Body; M.Bly 'To what bawdy house doth your Maister belong?': Barbers, Bawds, and Vice in the Early Modern London Barbershop; M.A.Johnston PART III: REMAPPING MISCONDUCT: SEWERS, SHOPS, AND STREETS Coriolanus and 'the rank-scented meinie': Smelling Rank in Early Modern London; H.Dugan Vicious Objects: Staging False Wares; N.Korda City of Angels: Theatrical Vice and The Devil is an Ass; I.Munro Afterword: A Question of Morality; L.Manley

Über Autor(innen)

AMANDA BAILEY is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. 
 
ROZE HENTSCHELL is Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, USA.