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Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue. Under various names - rogues, vagrants, molls, doxies, vagabonds, cony-catchers, masterless men - this group of marginal figures, poor men and women with no clear social place or identity, exploded onto the scene in 16th century English history and culture.
Trade Review[Rogues and Early Modern English Culture] is an important book, one that cleverly situates itself within an ongoing critical history that consistently questions how we read early modern English rogue texts.... Editors of future critical anthologies would do well to read this text. - Renaissance Quarterly ""Rogues and Early Modern English Culture makes a fine case for the centrality of the rogue and rogue writing to any understanding of the early modern city and its culture, and its cross-disciplinary approach suggests that more ways to open out this subject are yet to be discovered."" - Times Literary Supplement
