The end of conduct: Grobianus and the Renaissance text of the subject.

Correll, Barbara

Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1996

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DETAILS: very good dust-jacket with light wear to edges and corners, attractive copy, near fine dark brown half-cloth with gray boards. previous owner's name, place, date on front endpaper, a noteworthy art historian. CORRELL, BARBARA. The end of conduct: Grobianus and the Renaissance text of the subject. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, xv, 225pp., . Grobianus et Grobiana, a little known but key Renaissance text, is the starting point for this examination of indecency, conduct, and subject formation in the early modern period. First published in 1549, Friedrich Dedekind's ironic poem recommends the most disgusting behavior - indecency - as a means of instilling decency. The poem, Barbara Correll maintains, not only supplements prior conduct literature but offers a reading of it as well; her analysis of the Grobianus texts (the neo-Latin original, the German vernacular adaptation, the 1605 English translation, and Thomas Dekker's Guls Horne book) also provides a historical account of conduct during the shift from a medieval to a Renaissance sensibility. - CONTENTS: Author's Note: Texts, Translations, translatio -- Introduction: Indecent Ironies and the End of Conduct -- 1. Reading Grobianus: The Crisis of the Body in the Sixteenth Century -- 2. Malleable Material, Models of Power: Woman in Erasmus's "Marriage Group" and Good Manners in Boys -- 3. Reading Grobianus: The Subject at Work in the "laborinth" of Simplicity -- 4. Grobiana in Grobianus: The Sexual Politics of Civility -- 5. Scheidt's Grobianus: Revolting Bodies, Vernacular Discipline, National Character -- 6. Gulls from Grobians: Dekker's Guls Horne-booke and the Circulation of the Body in Renaissance England. 9780801431012 ISBN 0801431018.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The end of conduct: Grobianus and the Renaissance text of the subject.
• Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: includes dust-jacket
• Weight: 19.7 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Renaissance-Literature