Thomas Nashe in context / Lorna Hutson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutson, Lorna.

Series:

Oxford English monographs

Oxford English monographs.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601--Criticism and interpretation.

Nash, Thomas.

Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 294 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

Summary:

Offering an entirely new interpretation of the economic context of 16th-century literature, this book challenges the tendency to explain Nashe's texts in journalistic and commercial terms. Hutson reveals a previously overlooked link between humanist approaches to the literary text and the social and ethical transformation of the English economy. She blames lack of literary activity in general on the political emphasis and value placed on the printed word, and demonstrates that Nashe's work was the result of an intricate, socially engaged imagination rather than an eccentric sensibility.

Contents:

1. Consuming Resources: Literature in Economic Context, 1558-1592 15

2. The Profitable Discourse of the Elizabethans 38

3. Publication: Credit and Profit 55

4. Festivity and Productivity 72

5. Nashe and Popular Festive Pastime 100

6. Nashe's Literary Theory 120

7. Nashe, Mock-Testament, and Menippean Dialogue 127

8. Wasting Time in Summers Last Will and Testament 155

9. Pierce Penilesse, the Bankrupt's Carnival 172

10. Gabriel Harvey and the Politics of Publication 197

11. Credit for the Page of The Unfortunate Traveller 215

12. Patronage as the Red Herring of Lenten Stuffe 245.

Notes:

Revision of thesis (D. Phil.)--Oxford.

Includes index.

"Checklist of Nashe's writings": pages [xii]-xiii.

Bibliography: pages [269]-283.

ISBN:

0198128762 :

OCLC:

17766139