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\nINFORMATION TOALL USERS  \nThe quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted.  \nIn the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscriptand there are missing pages,these will be noted.Also,if material had to be removed,a note will indicate the deletion.  \nProQuest 10609970  \nPublished by ProQuest LLC(2017).Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author.  \nAll rights reserved.  \nThis work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17,United States CodeMicroform Edition ◎ ProQuest LLC.  \nProQuest LLC.789 East Eisenhower ParkwayP.O.Box 1346Ann Arbor,MI 48106-1346  \nTEXTS TO CONDEMNE US:THE PROSE WORKS OF THOMAS NASHE  \n# Chapter title\n\nPREFACE  \nTABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS  \n1 NASHE'S MISSING THEME:THE VICE-HERO  \n2 THE RIGHT USE OF AUNCIENT POETRIE  \n3 THE RULE OF THE TONGUE  \n4 TEXTS TO CONDEMNE US  \n5 PIERCE PENILESSE -THE DEMOCRATIC TEXT  \n6 THE GROTESQUE IN PIERCE PENILESSE  \n7 FAULTS ESCAPED IN PRINTING  \n8 THE ANTEROOM OF TORTURE  \n9 THE LORD IS KNOWN IN EXECUTING JUDGEMENT  \n10 CHRISTS TEARES OVER JERUSALEM  \n11 THE FLYTING  \n12 THE INVENTION OF THE ENEMY  \n13 THE PROFIT OF THE ENEMY  \n14 THE MARTYRDOM OF THE SELF  \n15 CONCLUSIONS  \nNOTES  \nBIBLIOGRAPHY  \nPage number  \n1  \n3  \n4  \n16  \n28  \n41  \n53  \n75  \n90  \n111  \n129  \n150  \n165  \n189  \n206  \n221  \n235  \n241  \n259  \nPREFACE  \nTexts To Condemne Us,a study of the prose works of Thomas Nashe,waswritten over a period of four years,off and on,between 1985 and 1989.Ittries to take account of all the previous critical work on Nashe that I wasaware of,but was substantially complete before the appearance of LornaHutson's Thomas Nashe In Context(Oxford 1989).Had I the benefit of thatbooks's thorough-going research into the socio-economic background toNashe's work I would,perhaps,have been able to deepen and broaden someaspects of my own argument.I do not think,however,that I wouldsubstantially have altered its lines of enquiry and conclusions,although Icould not have been quite as didactic about the 'failings'of earlycriticism in my first chapter !  \nIn fact,Professor Hutson's analysis of the ways in which economicpressures led Elizabethan writers to propagate a 'generall reformation ofmanners',her analysis of polemic against drink,gaming,play-going andsartorial ostentation as a general condemnation of 'unthrifty consumption',stengthens the argument of my first few chapters.We agree that Nashe'sabandonment of 'the protestant-humanist notion of learning for profit'canbe seen:  \neven while he was busy sifting the provident profits of poetry from itslicentious abuse in the didactic Anatomie Of Abuses\u003CI assume thatHutson refers to The Anatomy of Absurdity here>  \nWhere I borrow the phrase 'the polemic western self'in chapter 3 todescribe the authorial and moral self-possession which Nashe's laterwritings question and reconstruct,I may have used Hutson's argument thatpoetry was seen as the educator of the 'vir virtutis -the man in ful1possession of himself'.The instructive text,praised in The Anatomie ofAbsurdity'creates in its readers the capacity for self-government'-a keyconcept in my analysis of Nashe's deviation from his polemic context.  \nIn writing this thesis I have,however,made extensive use of MikhaelBakhtin's work on the carnival elements in Rabelais,and of Foucault'sanalysis of pre-capitalist economies of power and punishment in DisciplineAnd Punish:The Birth Of The Prison(tr.Alan Sheridan,London 1977).  \nBakhtin's excitement of discovery in Rabelais And His World(tr.Helene Iswolsky,Cambridge Mass.1968)furnished me with an important  \nPreface  \nframework on which to hang my own shabby architecture.The thesis as awhole,but particularly the chapters on Pierce Penilesse,The UnfortunateTraveller and Lenten Stuff,depend on the Bakhtinian notion of carnival.From Bakhtin I assume 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