Thomas Nashe in context
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Thomas Nashe in context
（Oxford English monographs）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989
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Revision of thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University
"Checklist of Nashe's writings": p. [xii]-xiii
Bibliography: p. [269]-283
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Challenging the tendency to disparage Nashe's writing as the product of an eccentric sensibility and to explain his texts in journalistic terms more appropriate to modern commercial publishing, this work provides an entirely new interpretation of the economic context of sixteenth-century literature. Lorna Hutson reveals hitherto overlooked links between humanist approaches to the literary text and the transformation of the English economy through humanist-inspired
policies of ethical and social reform; from this context, Nashe's textual prodigality emerges as an assault upon the contemporary impoverishment of literary activity caused by the political over-valuing of the printed word. Generic precedents turn out to be festive; each of Nashe's apparently
unstructured pamphlets derives shaping energy from traditions of popular-festive mockery. The pamphlets bring an older conception of seasonal prosperity into subversive dialogue with the newer discourse of provident individualism. For Nashe, stylistic experiment is shown to mean more than a choice of style; it is, rather, the expression of an intricate, socially engaged imagination.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The contexts: consuming resources - literature in economic context 1558-1592
- the profitable discourse of the Elizabethans
- publication - credit and profit
- festivity and productivity
- Nashe and popular festive pastime
- Nashe's literary theory
- Nashe, mock testament and Menippean dialogue. Part 2 The texts: wasting time in "Summers Last Will and Testament"
- "Pierce Penilesse", the bankrupt's carnival
- Gabriel Harvey and the politics of publication
- credit for the page of "The Unfortunate Traveller"
- patronage as the red herring of "Lenten Stuffe".
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