Early modern prose fiction : the cultural politics of reading /

Highlighting the significance of early modern prose fiction as a hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological and historical strands of the age, this work considers the reciprocal relation of early modern prose fiction to class distinctions, examining various factors

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Corporate Authors: Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund, Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Other Authors: Liebler, Naomi Conn, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2007
New York ; London : 2007
New York ; London : 2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the cultural politics of reading / Naomi Conn Liebler
  • Day labor : Thomas Nashe and the practice of prose in early modern England / Steve Mentz
  • How to turn prose into literature : the case of Thomas Nashe / Stephen Guy-Bray
  • Fishwives' tales : narrative agency, female subjectivity, and telling tales out of school / Constance C. Relihan
  • English renaissance romances as conduct books for young men / Goran V. Stanivukovic
  • Mildred, beloved of the devil, and the dangers of excessive consumption in Riche his farewell to militarie profession / Mary Ellen Lamb
  • "What ish my nation?" : Lady Mary Wroth's interrogations of personal and national identity / Sheila T. Cavanagh
  • Bully St. George : Richard Johnson's Seven champions of Christendom and the creation of the bourgeois national hero / Naomi Conn Liebler
  • Counterfeiting sovereignty, mocking mastery : trickster poetics and the critique of romance in Nashe's Unfortunate traveller / Joan Pong Linton
  • Afterword / Arthur F. Kinney
  • Introduction: the cultural politics of reading / Naomi Conn Liebler
  • Day labor: Thomas Nashe and the practice of prose in early modern England / Steve Mentz
  • How to turn prose into literature: the case of Thomas Nashe / Stephen Guy-Bray
  • Fishwives' tales: narrative agency, female subjectivity, and telling tales out of school / Constance C. Relihan
  • English Renaissance romances as conduct books for young men / Goran V. Stanivukovic
  • Mildred, beloved of the devil, and the dangers of excessive consumption in Riche, his farewell to militarie profession / Mary Ellen Lamb
  • What ish my nation: Lady Mary Wroth's interrogations of personal and national identity / Sheila T. Cavanaugh
  • Bully St. George: Richard Johnson's Seven champions of Christendom and the creation of a bourgeois national hero / Naomi Conn Liebler
  • Counterfeiting sovereignty, mocking mastery: trickster poetics and the critique of romance in Nashe's Unfortunate traveler / Joan Pong Linton
  • 1 Introduction : the cultural politics of reading / Naomi Conn Liebler
  • 2. Day labor : Thomas Nashe and the practice of prose in early modern England / Steve Mentz
  • 3. How to turn prose into literature : the case of Thomas Nashe / Stephen Guy-Bray
  • 4. Fishwives' tales : narrative agency, female subjectivity, and telling tales out of school / Constance C. Relihan
  • 5. English renaissance romances as conduct books for young men / Goran V. Stanivukovic
  • 6. Mildred, beloved of the devil, and the dangers of excessive consumption in Riche his farewell to militarie profession / Mary Ellen Lamb
  • 7. "What ish my nation?" : Lady Mary Wroth's interrogations of personal and national identity / Sheila T. Cavanagh
  • 8. Bully St. George : Richard Johnson's Seven champions of Christendom and the creation of the bourgeois national hero / Naomi Conn Liebler
  • 9. Counterfeiting sovereignty, mocking mastery : trickster poetics and the critique of romance in Nashe's Unfortunate traveller / Joan Pong Linton
  • 10. Afterword / Arthur E. Kinney.
  • 1 Introduction : the cultural politics of reading / Naomi Conn Liebler
  • 2. Day labor : Thomas Nashe and the practice of prose in early modern England / Steve Mentz
  • 3. How to turn prose into literature : the case of Thomas Nashe / Stephen Guy-Bray
  • 4. Fishwives' tales : narrative agency, female subjectivity, and telling tales out of school / Constance C. Relihan
  • 5. English renaissance romances as conduct books for young men / Goran V. Stanivukovic
  • 6. Mildred, beloved of the devil, and the dangers of excessive consumption in Riche his farewell to militarie profession / Mary Ellen Lamb
  • 7. "What ish my nation?" : Lady Mary Wroth's interrogations of personal and national identity / Sheila T. Cavanagh
  • 8. Bully St. George : Richard Johnson's Seven champions of Christendom and the creation of the bourgeois national hero / Naomi Conn Liebler
  • 9. Counterfeiting sovereignty, mocking mastery : trickster poetics and the critique of romance in Nashe's Unfortunate traveller / Joan Pong Linton
  • 10. Afterword / Arthur E. Kinney.