Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature
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- ISBN 9781474491808
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Examines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behavior
Broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural norms
Brings together a variety of texts that are not usually considered side by side (Elizabethan and Jacobean devil plays, non-conformist life writing, picaresque prose), using this carefully-chosen mix of texts to explore social norms as a generic concern
Provides a definitive study of texts lacking a substantial critical apparatus, like Grim the Collier of Croydon
Comparatively analyses early modern Anglophone texts alongside Spanish picaresque prose thus opening out new avenues in comparative literary studies
Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social milieu, congregation and family. The book encompasses the period from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, examining early modern shrew and devil plays, picaresque and rogue literature, and Quaker life-writing. Refusing to Behave examines the ways in which Thomas Dekker, Thomas Ellwood, Mateo Alem n and his translator James Mabbe, and the anonymous author of Grim the Collier of Croydon use textual tricks to provoke bodily responses in readers, and also draw on readers' bodily experiences to enrich their textual descriptions. This study broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural norms.
Laura Seymour is Lecturer in English at The Queen’s College, Oxford. She researches neurodiversity, Shakespeare, and early modern literature. She is the author of Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature (EUP, 2022) and Shakespeare and Neurodiversity (2024). Her work on neurodivergence, cognition, and early modern literature have appeared most recently in journals like Shakespeare, Renaissance Studies, Bunyan Studies, Marvell Studies, and Studies in English Literature as well as in edited volumes. With Professor Siân Grønlie, she founded and co-leads the project Neurodiversity at Oxford which aims to connect, celebrate, and empower Oxford University’s neurodiverse community of staff and students https://neurodiversityoxford.web.ox.ac.uk . Her current project, “New Understandings of Hamlet”, centers lived experience of neurodivergence, suicidal ideation, and mental illness in reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and is funded by the British Academy.
