Teresa S Prendergast

Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617: The Anti-Poetics of Theater and Print

Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617: The Anti-Poetics of Theater and Print (Material Readings in Early Modern Culture)

"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 Prender...

Renaissance Fantasies: The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction

Renaissance Fantasies is the first full-length study to explore why a number of early modern writers put their masculine literary authority at risk by writing from the perspective of femininity and effeminacy. Prendergast argues that fictions like Boccaccio's Decameron, Etienne Pasquier's Monophile,...

Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England.(Book review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly

This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by The Renaissance Society of America on June 22, 2008. The length of the article is 823 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediat...