1. Introduction; 2. Generating waste: Thomas Nashe and the production of professional authorship; 3. Literature as fetish; 4. Shame and the subject of history; Epilogue; Bibliography.
A wide-ranging study of the development of the concept of literature and authorship in late Elizabethan culture.
Georgia Brown was a lecturer at Lincoln College, Oxford and Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Queens' College, Cambridge. She has lectured at universities in Greece, Switzerland, Poland and the United States, and has published essays on Marlowe, Spenser, Queen Elizabeth I, Renaissance embroidery, and teaching the epyllion.
'Although Brown's book ... sets itself in opposition to the arguments of earlier books on non-dramatic literature of the 1580s and 90s, sich as Richard Helgerson's Elizabethan Prodigals (1976) it valuably complements them.' Times Literary Supplement ' ... thought-provoking and challenging book ... well-documented; it offers a precise reading of most of the contemporary critical essays ... it challenges one's desire to contradict her even while admitting that she can be enticingly convincing ... elegantly written ... stimulating, worthwhile read.' Cahiers Elizabethains
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