Civil Vengeance
Subtitle: Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781501739651
Subjects: English literature
Description: "Civil Vengeance changes how we understand retribution and uncovers an archive of revenge literature in early modern England. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, the author theorizes the manner in which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body in early modern England"--