Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt citythat ruined innocent young men. INDICE: Introduction: Gendered Geographies of Vice; A.Bailey & R.Hentschell PART I: REDEFINING URBAN MASCULINITY: TAVERNS, UNIVERSITIES, AND GAMING HOUSES Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play; G.Bloom University of Vice: Drink, Gentility, and Masculinity in Oxford, Cambridge, and London; L.Ellinghausen The Social Stakes of Gambling in Early Modern London; A.Zucker PART II: SEXUALIZING THE CITY: CATHEDRALS, BROTHELS, AND BARBERSHOPS Carnal Geographies: Mocking and Mapping the Religious Body; M.Bly 'To what bawdy house doth your Maister belong?': Barbers, Bawds, and Vice in the Early Modern London Barbershop; M.A.Johnston PART III: REMAPPING MISCONDUCT: SEWERS, SHOPS, AND STREETS Coriolanus and 'the rank-scented meinie': Smelling Rank in Early Modern London; H.Dugan Vicious Objects: Staging False Wares; N.Korda City of Angels: Theatrical Vice and The Devil is an Ass; I.Munro Afterword: A Question of Morality; L.Manley
- ISBN: 978-0-230-62366-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 14/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés