Traditional literary criticism once treated Thomas Nashe as an
Elizabethan oddity, difficult to understand or value. He was
described as an unrestrained stylist, venomous polemicist,
unreliable source, and closet pornographer. But today this
flamboyant writer sits at the center of many trends in early modern
scholarship. Nashe's varied output fuels efforts to reconsider
print culture and the history of the book, histories of sexuality
and pornography, urban culture, the changing nature of patronage,
the relationship between theater and print, and evolving
definitions of literary authorship and 'literature' as such. This
collection brings together a dozen scholars of Elizabethan
literature to characterize the current state of Nashe scholarship
and shape its emerging future. The Age of Thomas Nashe demonstrates
how the works of a restless, improvident, ambitious young writer,
driven by radical invention and a desperate search for literary
order, can restructure critical thinking about this familiar era.
These essays move beyond individual and generic conceptions of
authorship to show how Nashe's career unveils the changing
imperatives of literary production in late sixteenth-century
England. Thomas Nashe becomes both a marker of the historical
milieu of his time and a symbolic pointer gesturing towards
emerging features of modern authorship.
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