Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern EnglandJohns Hopkins University Press, 29 mar. 2002 - 217 pagini In this book Bryan Reynolds argues that early modern England experienced a sociocultural phenomenon, unprecedented in English history, which has been largely overlooked by historians and critics. Beginning in the 1520s, a distinct "criminal culture" of beggars, vagabonds, confidence tricksters, prostitutes, and gypsies emerged and flourished. This community defined itself through its criminal conduct and dissident thought and was, in turn,officially defined by and against the dominant conceptions of English cultural normality. Examining plays, popular pamphlets, laws, poems, and scholarly work from the period, Reynolds demonstrates that this criminal culture, though diverse, was united by its own ideology, language, and aesthetic. Using his transversal theory, he shows how the enduring presence of this criminal culture markedly influenced the mainstream culture's aesthetic sensibilities, socioeconomic organization, and systems of belief. He maps the effects of the public theater's transformative force of transversality, such as through the criminality represented by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Dekker, on both Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the scholarship devoted to it. |
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... culture , with its mytholo- gized Egyptian lineage , is a novel invention that is the composite outcome of criminal self - production and the popular construction of an alternative , criminal culture . To be sure , according to this ...
... criminal culture challenged offi- cial culture's language - standardization movement through its use of cant . Commodification , Fetishization , Intervention Official culture sought to safeguard its power by recording , co - opting ...
... Criminal culture became a transversal gateway for the popular imagination . Moreover , the fetishized criminal culture was not the antithesis of offi- cial culture and its Christianity . On both personal and sociocultural levels , it is ...
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