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Thomas Nashe in Context (Hardcover)
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Thomas Nashe in Context (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Challenging the tendency to disparage Nashe's writing as the
product of an eccentric sensibility and to explain his texts in
journalistic terms more appropriate to modern commercial
publishing, this work provides an entirely new interpretation of
the economic context of sixteenth-century literature. Lorna Hutson
reveals hitherto overlooked links between humanist approaches to
the literary text and the transformation of the English economy
through humanist-inspired policies of ethical and social reform;
from this context, Nashe's textual prodigality emerges as an
assault upon the contemporary impoverishment of literary activity
caused by the political over-valuing of the printed word. Generic
precedents turn out to be festive; each of Nashe's apparently
unstructured pamphlets derives shaping energy from traditions of
popular-festive mockery. The pamphlets bring an older conception of
seasonal prosperity into subversive dialogue with the newer
discourse of provident individualism. For Nashe, stylistic
experiment is shown to mean more than a choice of style; it is,
rather, the expression of an intricate, socially engaged
imagination.
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