This dissertation focuses on the proliferation of literary personae in print between 1588 and 1603, a phenomenon which generated the conditions for print stardom, heated debate, cross-volume narratives, and a culture of literary appropriation. Each chapter focuses on a different persona - Colin Clout, Martin Marprelate, Thomas Nashe, and Robert Greene - and contains close readings of generically diverse texts. In so doing, the project tells a new story about literary culture of the 1590s, a story in which personae stimulated the print market by becoming textual celebrities, fighting with one another, and capitalizing on already well-known textual personalities' fame.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:columbia.edu/oai:academiccommons.columbia.edu:10.7916/D8JD4VQD |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Streeter, Ashley |
| Source Sets | Columbia University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Theses |
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