Contents |
Introduction : the cultural politics of reading / Naomi Conn Liebler -- Day labor : Thomas Nashe and the practice of prose in early modern England / Steve Mentz -- How to turn prose into literature : the case of Thomas Nashe / Stephen Guy-Bray -- Fishwives' tales : narrative agency, female subjectivity, and telling tales out of school / Constance C. Relihan -- English renaissance romances as conduct books for young men / Goran V. Stanivukovic -- Mildred, beloved of the devil, and the dangers of excessive consumption in Riche his farewell to militarie profession / Mary Ellen Lamb -- "What ish my nation?" : Lady Mary Wroth's interrogations of personal and national identity / Sheila T. Cavanagh -- Bully St. George : Richard Johnson's Seven champions of Christendom and the creation of the bourgeois national hero / Naomi Conn Liebler -- Counterfeiting sovereignty, mocking mastery : trickster poetics and the critique of romance in Nashe's Unfortunate traveller / Joan Pong Linton -- Afterword / Arthur F. Kinney. |