Vagrant Writing: Social and Semiotic Disorders in the English Renaissance (Theory / Culture)

1ST EDITION. Vagrant Writing: Social and Semiotic Disorders in the English Renaissance was published by University of Toronto Press, 1991. Publisher's statement: "Vagrant Writing addresses the semiotic dimension of social change in Renaissance England. From tracts against cosmetics in 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 radical transformation."