Becoming Criminal

Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England

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Bryan Reynolds argues that among rogues, vagabonds, confidence tricksters, prostitutes and petty thieves a criminal subculture emerged in early modern England, united by its own aesthetic, ideology, language and lifestyle. Both independent of and dependent upon the mainstream culture, this ‘subnation’ illustrates Reynolds’s ‘transversal theory’ of influential dissident groups powerfully affecting the circulation of social power.

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