Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617
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anti-aesthetics in Elizabethan drama
Antitheatrical Writers
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Base Men
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censorship studies
dialogic invective analysis
Early Jacobean
early modern polemics
English Literary Manuscript
English Professional Theater
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gender discourse
Iambic Pentameter Couplets
Jack Drum's Entertainment
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Jacobean literary movements
Manuscript Libels
marprelate
Marprelate Controversy
Marprelate Pamphlets
Martin Marprelate
Martin's Style
Martin’s Style
Misogynistic Writers
Nashe Harvey Controversy
Nashe's Lenten Stuff
Nashe’s Lenten Stuff
Pamphlet War
pamphlets
Queer Poetics
Railing Character
Railing Texts
Railing Theater
religious controversy England
Roman Republic
Tullus Aufidius
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- ISBN 9781409438090
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617 is the first book to consider railing plays and pamphlets as participating in a coherent literary movement that dominated much of the English literary landscape during the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period. Author Prendergast considers how these crisis-ridden texts on religious, gender, and aesthetic controversies were encouraged and supported by the emergence of the professional theater and print pamphlets. She argues that railing texts by Shakespeare, Nashe, Jonson, Jane Anger and others became sites for articulating anxious emotions-including fears about the stability of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth and the increasing factional splits between Protestant groups. But, given that railings about religious and political matters often led to censorship or even death, most railing writers chose to circumvent such possible repercussions by railing against unconventional gender identity, perverse sexual proclivities, and controversial aesthetics. In the process, Prendergast argues, railers shaped an anti-aesthetics that was itself dependent on the very expressions of perverse gender and sexuality that they discursively condemned, an aesthetics that created a conceptual third space in which bitter enemies-male or female, conformist or nonconformist-could bond by engaging in collaborative experiments with dialogical invective. By considering a literary mode of articulation that vehemently counters dominant literary discourse, this book changes the way that we look at late Elizabethan and early Jacobean literature, as it associates works that have been studied in isolation from each other with a larger, coherent literary movement.
Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast is Assistant Professor of English, The College of Wooster, USA.
