Vagrant Writing: Social and Semiotic Disorders in the English Renaissance

1ST EDITION. Vagrant Social and Semiotic Disorders in the English Renaissance was published by University of Toronto Press, 1991. Publisher’s “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.”