Highlighting the significance of early modern prose fiction as a hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological and historical strands of the age, this fascinating study brings together an outstanding cast of critics
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Highlighting the significance of early modern prose fiction as a hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological and historical strands of the age, this fascinating study brings together an outstanding cast of critics
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: the cultural politics of reading; 2. Day labor: Thomas Nashe and the practice of prose in early modern England; 3. How to turn prose into literature: the case of Thomas Nashe; 4. Fishwives' tales: narrative agency, female subjectivity, and telling tales out of school; 5. English Renaissance romances as conduct books for young men; 6. Mildred, beloved of the devil, and the dangers of excessive consumption in Riche His Farewell to Militarie Profession
7. ''What ish my nation?'': Lady Mary Wroth's interrogations of personal and national identity8. Bully St. George: Richard Johnson's Seven Champions of Christendom and the creation of the bourgeois national hero; 9. Counterfeiting sovereignty, mocking mastery: trickster poetics and the critique of romance in Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller; 10. Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
