“Licencious gaddyng abroade”: A Conflicted Imaginary of Mobility in Early Modern English Protestant Writings
A history of the little word “gadding”, I suggest in this article, is revealing. Tracking its appearance in early-modern English printed texts shows how it was almost always used pejoratively: gadding is repeatedly connected with an unquiet spirit, with all that is disordered, unruly, hectic, frazzl...
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/4554 |