{"product_id":"civil-vengeance-9781501739651","title":"Civil Vengeance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnagethe 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\u003eemphasize 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 societychurch, law, and educationrelied 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 tragedi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409338245463,"sku":"9781501739651","price":42.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501739651.jpg?v=1730506472","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/civil-vengeance-9781501739651","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}