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"The vagrant poor of Renaissance England have acquired a patina of comic good humor and a reputation as sturdy rogues who were adept at living on the fringes of society. Unearthing the sources as well as the effects of this reputation, Linda Woodbridge shows that the prevailing image of the vagrant poor was essentially a literary fabrication pressed into the service of specific social and political agendas.".

"Looking at texts such as Thomas Harman's influential Caveat for Common Cursetors, Vulgarly Called Vagabonds, Till Eulenspiegel's A Man Called Howlglas, and Walter Smith's Twelve Merry Jests of the Widow Edith, Woodbridge identifies a well-established literary tradition of treating vagrants as comic figures.

This literary practice, she maintains, has informed both the legal and the historical treatment of vagrancy, erasing pity and compassion for the homeless by depicting them as robust, resourceful, conniving tricksters. Her study culminates in a close look at one literary work that does invoke compassion for the homeless, placeless poor: Shakespeare's King Lear."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
338

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Vagrancy, homelessness, and English Renaissance literature
2001, University of Illinois Press
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Table of Contents

Death by lack of cherishing : vagrancy and the work of Thomas Harman
Holiness and homelessness, or, Joke books and the English Reformation
More matter for mirth : humanism against the homeless
Homelessness on the home front : monarchy, nation building, and domesticity
Policing the boundaries of shame : hygiene, civility, and homelessness
Lear, the homeless king.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-323) and index.

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Urbana

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/35206942
Library of Congress
PR428.R63 W66 2001, PR428.R63W66 2001, PR 428 .R63 W66 2001, PR 428 R63 W66 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
338 p. ;
Number of pages
338

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6776781M
Internet Archive
vagrancyhomeless0000wood
ISBN 10
0252026330
LCCN
00010367
OCLC/WorldCat
44681688
Library Thing
3198200
Goodreads
2677320

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