Vagrant Writing: Social and Semiotic Disorders in the English Renaissance

by Barry Taylor

Book Overview

Vagrant Writing addresses the semiotic dimension of social change in Renaissance England. From tracta against cosmetics to the Jonsonian masque, from coney-catching pamphlets to the theology of Hooker, Barry Taylor explores what happens to Tudor and Jacobean practices of writing when the ideology of the Word which underpins them -- an ideology of fixed, metaphysically anchored meaning -- must interpret, regulate and contain a social order undergoing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487582528
• ISBN13: 9781487582524
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"