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Title: The End of Conduct: Grobianus and the Renaissance Text of the Subject
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1996). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xv, 225 pp. Minor rubbing. A removed-label mark to front cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Indecent Ironies & the End of Conduct; Reading Grobianus: The Crisis of the Body in the 16th Century; Malleable Material, Models of Power: Woman in Erasmus's 'Marriage Group' and 'Good Manners in Boys'; Reading Grobianus: The Subject at Work in the "laborinth" of Simplicity; Grobiana in Grobianus: The Sexual Politics of Civility; Scheidt's Grobianus: Revolting Bodies, Vernacular Discipline, National Character; Gulls from Grobians: Dekker's 'Guls Horne-booke' and the Circulation of the Body in Renaissance England.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Friedrich Dedekind, Grobianus Poetry, Didactic Literature, German Germany, Renaissance Conduct, Casper Scheidt, Humanists Humanism, Courtesy Erasmus

Price: US$ 59.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS010703I