Vagrant Writing: Social and Semiotic Disorders in the English Renaissance

Barry Taylor

Published by University of Toronto Press 1991

Vagrant Writing

Social and Semiotic Disorders in the English Renaissance

Barry Taylor

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487583958

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Vagrant Writing addresses the semiotic dimension of social change in Renaissance England. Barry Taylor explores what happens to Tudor and Jacobean practices of writing when the ideology of the Word which underpins them must interpret, regulate and contain a social order undergoing radical transformation.

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Taylor Barry :

Barry Taylor is a curator of Hispanic Collections at the British Library. His previous books include Latin and Vernacular in RenaissanceSpain.

Reviews

'Vagrant Writing ranks among the best contributions to English Renaissance studies that I have read in recent years. It is not only a substantial analytical achievement but also a stylistic tour de force. Reading that book I got not only a flavour of the excitement of recent theoretical developments, but also a sense of a new critical paradigm being consolidated. I am confident that this will be regarded as a classical piece of scholarly analysis and exposition for a long time to come.'

'Vagrant Writing is an outstanding book. It derives from a creative encounter between semiotics and cultural materialism. What that means in practice is that Taylor aims not to re-read the past through theoretical lenses, but to think about it differently in order to understand it better. Wide ranging socio-economic, ideological and historical issues are focused in woderfully perceptive analyses of texts. Vagrant Writing is indispensable for us all, teachers and students alike, of history and literature.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction: Vagrancy as Writing/Vagrant Writing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Semiotics of Settlement: Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Narcissus and the Usurer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. George Gascoigne: Writing Vagrantly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
4. 'The Instrumentality of Ornament': George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
5. Mortality and the Utility of Courtship: Castiglione's Book of the Courtier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
6. The Radiant and the Reflective: Courtly Authority and Crisis in Jonson's Masques and Cynthia's Revels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 258

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Published: December 15, 1991
ISBN: 9781487583958