1st Edition
Early Modern Prose Fiction The Cultural Politics of Reading
1. Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Reading 2. Day Labor: Thomas Nashe and the Practice of Prose in Early Modern England 3. How to Turn Prose into Literature: the Case of Thomas Nashe 4. Fishwives’ Tales: narrative Agency, Female Subjectivity, and Telling Tales Out of School 5. English Renaissance Romances as Conduct Books for Young Men 6. Mildred, beloved of the Devil, and the Dangers of Excessive Consumption in Riche His Farewell to Militarie Profession 7. What Ish My Nation?: Lady Mary Wroth’s Interrogations of Personal and National Identity 8. Bully St. George: Richard Johnson’s Seven Champions of Christendom and the Creation of a Bourgeois National Hero 9. Counterfeiting Sovereignty, Mocking Mastery: Trickster Poetics and the Critique of Romance in Nashe's Unfortunate Traveler 10. Afterword 11. Works Cited
Biography
Naomi Conn Liebler is a Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Montclair State University. She has published widely on Shakespeare and other early modern drama, and Modern American and European Drama, including Shakespeare’s Festive Tragedy, 1995.
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