Paper Monsters : : Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England / / Samuel Fallon.

In Paper Monsters, Samuel Fallon charts the striking rise, at the turn to the seventeenth century, of a new species of textual being: the serial, semifictional persona. When Thomas Nashe introduced his charismatic alter ego Pierce Penilesse in a 1592 text, he described the figure as a "paper mo...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Material Texts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 6 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Robert Greene’s Ghosts
  • Chapter 2. Rehearsing Colin Clout
  • Chapter 3. Astrophil, Philisides, and the Coterie in Print
  • Chapter 4. Pierce Penilesse and the Art of Distinctions
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments