How Long to Read Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588–1617

How Long Does it Take to Read Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588–1617?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 34 minutes to read Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588–1617 by Dr Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast

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Description

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 Prendergast considers how these crisis-ridden texts on religious, gender, and aesthetic controversies were encouraged and supported by the emergence of the professional theater and print pamphlets. She argues that railing texts by Shakespeare, Nashe, Jonson, Jane Anger and others became sites for articulating anxious emotions–including fears about the stability of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth and the increasing factional splits between Protestant groups. But, given that railings about religious and political matters often led to censorship or even death, most railing writers chose to circumvent such possible repercussions by railing against unconventional gender identity, perverse sexual proclivities, and controversial aesthetics. In the process, Prendergast argues, railers shaped an anti-aesthetics that was itself dependent on the very expressions of perverse gender and sexuality that they discursively condemned, an aesthetics that created a conceptual third space in which bitter enemies–male or female, conformist or nonconformist–could bond by engaging in collaborative experiments with dialogical invective. By considering a literary mode of articulation that vehemently counters dominant literary discourse, this book changes the way that we look at late Elizabethan and early Jacobean literature, as it associates works that have been studied in isolation from each other with a larger, coherent literary movement.

How long is Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588–1617?

Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588–1617 by Dr Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast is 332 pages long, and a total of 83,664 words.

This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588–1617 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 37 minutes to read Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588–1617 aloud.

What Reading Level is Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588–1617?

Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588–1617 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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