Overview

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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Author:   Chloe Kathleen Preedy ,  Rachel Willie
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
ISBN:  

9781526149466

ISBN 10:   152614946
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   23 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

A note on dating and spelling Introduction: Why Nashe? Why now? - Chloe Kathleen Preedy and Rachel Willie 1 ‘Frisking… aloft’: The pneumatic spirits of Thomas Nashe’s ‘paper stage’ - Chloe Kathleen Preedy 2 A flood in a furrow: Nashe, news, and monstrous topicality - Kirsty Rolfe 3 Textual superficiality and surface reading in Nashe’s prose - Douglas Clark 4 ‘When prints are set on work, with Greens & Nashes’: Nashe’s ‘popularity’ revisited – Lena Liapi 5 Thomas Nashe and his terrors of the afterlife - Chris Salamone 6 Thomas Nashe and the virtual community of English writers - Kate De Rycker 7 Thomas Nashe beyond the grave - Rachel Willie Afterword – Jennifer Richards Bibliography Index -- .

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Chloe Kathleen Preedy is Associate Professor in Early Modern Drama at the University of Exeter. Rachel Willie is Reader in Early Modern Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University.

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