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As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of contradictory reactions. Nashe's often incongruous authorial characteristics suggest that, as a 'King of Pages', he not only courted controversy but also deliberately cultivated a variety of public personae, acquiring a reputation more slippery than the herrings he celebrated in print. Collectively, the essays in this book illustrate how Nashe excelled at textual performance but his personae became a contested site as readers actively participated and engaged in the reception of Nashe's public image and his works.
Contents
A note on dating and spelling
Introduction: Why Nashe? Why now? - Chloe Kathleen Preedy and Rachel Willie
1 'Frisking... aloft': The pneumatic spirits of Thomas Nashe's 'paper stage' - Chloe Kathleen Preedy
2 A flood in a furrow: Nashe, news, and monstrous topicality - Kirsty Rolfe
3 Textual superficiality and surface reading in Nashe's prose - Douglas Clark
4 'When prints are set on work, with Greens & Nashes': Nashe's 'popularity' revisited - Lena Liapi
5 Thomas Nashe and his terrors of the afterlife - Chris Salamone
6 Thomas Nashe and the virtual community of English writers - Kate De Rycker
7 Thomas Nashe beyond the grave - Rachel Willie
Afterword - Jennifer Richards
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