Thomas Nashe and literary performance
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Thomas Nashe and literary performance

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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Thomas Nashe and literary performance

About this book

As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of contradictory reactions. Nashe's often incongruous authorial characteristics suggest that, as a 'King of Pages', he not only courted controversy but also deliberately cultivated a variety of public personae, acquiring a reputation more slippery than the herrings he celebrated in print. Collectively, the essays in this book illustrate how Nashe excelled at textual performance but his personae became a contested site as readers actively participated and engaged in the reception of Nashe's public image and his works.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. SERIES PAGE
  3. TITLE PAGE
  4. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  5. CONTENTS
  6. LIST OF FIGURES
  7. GENERAL EDITORS’ PREFACE
  8. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  9. A NOTE ON DATING AND SPELLING
  10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  11. ABBREVIATIONS
  12. INTRODUCTION: WHY NASHE? WHY NOW?
  13. 1: ‘FRISKING … ALOFT’: THE PNEUMATIC SPIRITS OF THOMAS NASHE'S ‘PAPER STAGE’
  14. 2: A FLOOD IN A FURROW: NASHE, NEWS, AND MONSTROUS TOPICALITY
  15. 3: TEXTUAL SUPERFICIALITY AND SURFACE READING IN NASHE'S PROSE
  16. 4: ‘WHEN PRINTS ARE SET ON WORK, WITH GREENS & NASHES’: NASHE'S ‘POPULARITY’ REVISITED
  17. 5: THOMAS NASHE AND HIS TERRORS OF THE AFTERLIFE
  18. 6: THOMAS NASHE AND THE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY OF ENGLISH WRITERS
  19. 7: THOMAS NASHE BEYOND THE GRAVE
  20. AFTERWORD
  21. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  22. INDEX