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.
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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
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Rachel Willie is Lecturer in English Literature at Bangor University
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