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Thomas Nashe and literary performance
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2023
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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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Contributor: Rachel Willie
Rachel Willie is Lecturer in English Literature at Bangor University
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Front matter
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Contents
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List of figures
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General editors' preface
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Notes on contributors
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A note on dating and spelling
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
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1 Frisking … aloft!'
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2 A flood in a furrow
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3 Textual superficiality and surface reading in Nashe's prose
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4 When prints are set on work, with Greens and Nashes'
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5 Thomas Nashe and his terrors of the afterlife
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6 Thomas Nashe and the virtual community of English writers
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7 Thomas Nashe beyond the grave
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Afterword
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Bibliography
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Index
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Keywords for this book
authorship; Early modern prose; Gabriel Harvey; Marprelate; print publication; publicity; reception history; self-representation; textuality; Thomas Nashe
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
