Masterless renaissance : rogue form from Lazarillo to Cutpurse
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Treating "masterlessness" as both a historical event and an evolving discourse, "Masterless Renaissance: Rogue Form from Lazarillo to Cutpurse" recovers one of the early modern period's central vocabularies for theorizing social change. Where much of early modern literature, and its criticism, investigates the subtle and contested dynamics of the master-servant dyad, this project moves beyond the paradigm of patronage and the English "rogue literature" which has so far dominated literary-critical discussion of early modern modes of labor and subjecthood, and turns toward the era's much less well understood emerging forms and conceptions of masterlessness. Masterless Renaissance shows how the idea of the masterless person transformed throughout the period from that of the social pariah—the rogue, outlaw, vagabond, and apostate—to the bourgeois ideal of freedom and autonomy. From Spanish picaresque fiction and its influential English translations, and Thomas Nashe's narrative invention to interrogate the mechanics of precarious commodification; to William Shakespeare's republican tragedies and their rich engagement with the notion of akrasia as a way to reckon with what Jürgen Habermas has termed the "disintegration" of the bourgeois public sphere; to Mary "Moll Cutpurse" Frith and Catalina "The Lieutenant Nun" Erauso, their criminalized cross-dressing mobility and questions of gender and imperial war machines, Masterless Renaissance reveals masterlessness as an overlooked complex of aesthetic innovation, incipient sociological paradigms, and an evolving philosophical and theological tradition
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lamata, Juan Pedro |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Lupic, Ivan |
| Thesis advisor | Parker, Patricia A, 1946- |
| Degree committee member | Lupic, Ivan |
| Degree committee member | Parker, Patricia A, 1946- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, English Department. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Juan Pedro Lamata |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the English Department |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Juan Pedro Lamata
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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