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Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617 - The Anti-Poetics of Theater and Print (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617 - The Anti-Poetics of Theater and Print (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
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Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture,
1588-1617 is the first book to consider railing plays and pamphlets
as participating in a coherent literary movement that dominated
much of the English literary landscape during the late
Elizabethan/early Jacobean period. Author Prendergast considers how
these crisis-ridden texts on religious, gender, and aesthetic
controversies were encouraged and supported by the emergence of the
professional theater and print pamphlets. She argues that railing
texts by Shakespeare, Nashe, Jonson, Jane Anger and others became
sites for articulating anxious emotions-including fears about the
stability of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth and the
increasing factional splits between Protestant groups. But, given
that railings about religious and political matters often led to
censorship or even death, most railing writers chose to circumvent
such possible repercussions by railing against unconventional
gender identity, perverse sexual proclivities, and controversial
aesthetics. In the process, Prendergast argues, railers shaped an
anti-aesthetics that was itself dependent on the very expressions
of perverse gender and sexuality that they discursively condemned,
an aesthetics that created a conceptual third space in which bitter
enemies-male or female, conformist or nonconformist-could bond by
engaging in collaborative experiments with dialogical invective. By
considering a literary mode of articulation that vehemently
counters dominant literary discourse, this book changes the way
that we look at late Elizabethan and early Jacobean literature, as
it associates works that have been studied in isolation from each
other with a larger, coherent literary movement.
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