 | Vagrant Writing: Social and Semiotic Disorders in the English Renaissance Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century; Semiotics and literature; Renaissance -- England; Vagrant Writing addresses the semiotic dimension of social change in Renaissance England. Barry Taylor explores what happens to Tudor and Jacobean practices of writing when the ideology of the Word which underpins them must interpret, regulate and contain a social order undergoing radical transformation. Taylor Barry : Barry Taylor is a curator of Hispanic Collections at the British Library. His previous books include Latin and Vernacular in RenaissanceSpain. |
