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The end of conduct : Grobianus and the Renaissance text of the subject
- Title
- The end of conduct : Grobianus and the Renaissance text of the subject / Barbara Correll.
- Author
- Correll, Barbara.
- Publication
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PA8485.D6 G7634 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 225 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Dedekind, Friedrich, -1598
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 > Knowledge and learning
- Dekker, Thomas, approximately 1572-1632
- Dedekind, Friedrich, -1598 > Influence
- Scheidt, Caspar, -1565
- Didactic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Germany > History and criticism
- Knowledge and learning
- Conduct of life in literature
- Human body in literature
- Courtesy in literature
- Renaissance
- Humanists > Europe
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0801431018 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96013885
- OCLC
- 34515095
- ocm34515095
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries