Stephen Guy-Bray, Joan Pong Linton

The Age of Thomas Nashe

Text, Bodies and Trespasses of Authorship in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

Considering multiple elements of Nashe's varied works, including print and performance cultures, histories of sexuality and pornography, urban culture and the changing nature of literary patronage, these essays characterize the current state of Nashe scholarship and shape its emerging future.

Produktdetails

• Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780367879112
• ISBN-10: 0367879115
• Artikelnr.: 58439362

Autorenporträt

Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Joan Pong Linton is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, USA. Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1 Beyond the City: Sex and the city: Nashe, Ovid and the problems
of urbanity. This sorrow's heavenly: Christ's Teares and the Jews.
Blame-in-praise irony in Lenten Stuffe. Nashe's fish: misogyny, romance,
and the ocean in Lenten Stuffe. Section 2 Mediating Bodies: Reproducing
paper monsters in Thomas Nashe. Nashe's extemporal vein and his
Tarltonizing wit. Gross anatomies: mapping matter and literary form in
Thomas Nashe and Andreas Vesalius. Section 3 Trespasses of Authorship: Wit
without money in Nashe. Nashe's vain vein: poetic pleasure and the limits
of utility. Postscript: Nashe untrimmed: the way we teach him today.