Rogues and Early Modern English Culture is a definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue. Under various names - rogues, vagrants, molls, doxies, vagabonds, cony-catchers, masterless men, caterpillars of the commonwealth - this group of marginal figures, poor men and women with no clear social place or identity, exploded onto the scene in sixteenth century English history and culture. Early modern representations of the rogue or moll in pamphlets, plays, poems, ballads, historical records, and the infamous Tudor Poor Laws treated these characters as harbingers of emerging social, economic, and cultural changes.

About the Author
Craig Dionne is Professor of English Literature at Eastern Michigan University. Steve Mentz is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University.

Reviews
[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



Book Information
ISBN 9780472031771
Author Craig Dionne
Format Paperback
Page Count 424
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 620g