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Zusatztext '...this book is a very valuable introduction and contribution to them [Nashe studies].' Sixteenth Century Journal Informationen zum Autor Georgia Brown! Early Modern Research Centre! University of Reading! UK Klappentext The surge of interest in the Elizabethan poet, dramatist, prose-writer and critic, Thomas Nashe, follows years of neglect or undisguised hostility. This title includes essays that present diverse approaches to key issues in Nashe. It covers Nashe's texts, as are his relationships with contemporaries, like Shakespeare. Zusammenfassung The surge of interest in the Elizabethan poet, dramatist, prose-writer and critic, Thomas Nashe, follows years of neglect or undisguised hostility. This title includes essays that present diverse approaches to key issues in Nashe. It covers Nashe's texts, as are his relationships with contemporaries, like Shakespeare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I Nashe and Early Modern Literature: Contexts! Relationships! Influence: The extemporal vein: Thomas Nashe and the invention of modern narrative! Kiernan Ryan; 'London' and 'The Wits' Charles Nicholl; Shakespearean grotesque: the Falstaff plays! Neil Rhodes; The uses of resentment: Nashe! 'Parnassus'! and the poet's mystery! Laurie Ellinghausen. Part II Earlier Works: 'The Anatomie of Absurditie': a study in literary apprenticeship! Don Cameron Allen; The influence of the Marprelate controversy upon the style of Thomas Nashe! Travis L. Summersgill; The miseries of authorship and 'Pierce Penilesse'! G.R. Hibbard; 'Pierce Penilesse'! the bankrupt's carnival! Lorna Hutson; 'Christs Teares': Nashe's 'forsaken extremities'! Katherine Duncan-Jones; Summer fruit and autumn leaves: Thomas Nashe in 1593! Philip Schwyzer; Prototypes of festive comedy in a pageant entertainment: 'Summer's Last Will and Testament'! C.L. Barber; 'Summer's Last Will and Testament': revels' end! Marie Axton. Part III Later Works! Including the Quarrel with Gabriel Harvey: Nashe and the poetics of obscenity: 'The Choise of Valentines'! M.L. Stapleton; Transmuted into a woman or worse: masculine gender identity and Thomas Nashe's Choice of Valentines! Ian Frederick Moulton; 'All this tractate is but a dream': the ethics of dream narration in Thomas Nashe's The Terrors of the Night! Per Sivefors; The patrimony of learning! Alexandra Halasz; Day labor: Thomas Nashe and the practice of prose in early modern England! Steve Mentz; Nashe's red herring: epistemologies of the commodity in Lenten Stuffe! Henry S. Turner; Rhetoric and truth! Jonathan V. Crewe. Part IV The Unfortunate Traveller (1594): Thomas Nashe and the functional grotesque in Elizabethan prose fiction! Barbara C. Millard; Nashe's 'The Unfortunate Traveller': the 'newes of the maker' game! Margaret Ferguson; Inside the outsider! Nashe's 'Unfortunate Traveller' and Bakhtins polyphonic novel! Ann Rosalind Jones; The epistemological challenge of Nashe's 'The Unfortunate Traveller'! Raymond Stephanson; 'The Unfortunate Traveller' in (and out of) France! Richard Hillman; How to turn prose into literature: the case of Thomas Nashe! Stephen Guy-Bray; Name index. ...
