Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550-1650

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Series Editors’ Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Gendered Geographies of Vice......Page 14
Part I: Redefining Urban Masculinity: Taverns, Universities, and Gaming Houses......Page 32
1 Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play......Page 34
2 University of Vice: Drink, Gentility, and Masculinity in Oxford, Cambridge, and London......Page 58
3 The Social Stakes of Gambling in Early Modern London......Page 80
Part II: Sexualizing the City: Cathedrals, Brothels, and Barbershops......Page 100
4 Carnal Geographies: Mocking and Mapping the Religious Body......Page 102
5 “To what bawdy house doth your Maister belong?”: Barbers, Bawds, and Vice in the Early Modern London Barbershop......Page 128
Part III: Remapping Misconduct: Sewers, Shops, and Streets......Page 150
6 Coriolanus and the “rank-scented meinie”: Smelling Rank in Early Modern London......Page 152
7 Vicious Objects: Staging False Wares......Page 174
8 City of Angels: Theatrical Vice and The Devil is an Ass......Page 198
Afterword: A Question of Morality......Page 218
Contributors......Page 230
B......Page 234
D......Page 235
E......Page 236
H......Page 237
M......Page 238
P......Page 239
S......Page 240
V......Page 242
Z......Page 243