Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550-1650

Title:

ISBN:

9780230106147

Personal Author:

Bailey, A. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2010.

Publication Information New:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description:

XI, 230 p. 3 illus. online resource.

Series:

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700,

Abstract:

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 city that ruined innocent young men.

Subject Term:

Civilization -- History.

Literature -- Philosophy.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

Sex.

European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.