Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-178) and index.
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.
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Highlighting the significance of early modern prose fiction as a hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological and historical strands of the age, this work considers the reciprocal relation of early modern prose fiction to class distinctions, examining various factors.
Early modern prose fiction.
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Books and reading-- England-- History-- 16th century.
Books and reading-- England-- History-- 17th century.
English fiction-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
Literature and society-- England-- History-- 16th century.
Literature and society-- England-- History-- 17th century.
Popular literature-- England-- History and criticism.