Railing, reviling, and invective in English literary culture, 1588-1617
Subtitle: the anti-poetics of theater and print
By: by Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast
Series: Material readings in early modern culture
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781409438090; 9781409438106
Subjects: Complaints (Rhetoric); English literature; Literature and society; History and criticism; Invective in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: railing, reviling, and invective; title: The queer poetics of the Marprelate controversy; title: Promiscuous parthenogeneses: the Nashe-Harvey controversy; title: Theaters of envy: the poets' war and Troilus and Cressida; title: Aristocratic remains: Coriolanus and Timon of Athens; title: Dogges, verse, and effeminate men: the misandronic railings of anger, munda, and sharp; title: Conclusion.