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The Unfortunate Traveller. The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton (originally published as The Unfortunate Traueller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton) is a picaresque novel by Thomas Nashe first published in 1594 but set during the reign of Henry VIII of England. In this adventurous and episodic work, Nashe's protagonist Jack ...
Feb 4, 2013 · The writer's vocabulary has become opulent, his phrases flash and detonate, each page is full of unconnected sparks and electrical discharges. A sort of aurora borealis of wit streams and rustles across the dusky surface, amusing to the reader, but discontinuous, and insufficient to illuminate the matter in hand.
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Sep 5, 2023 · The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jacke Wilton is a novel written by English pamphleteer, writer, and poet Thomas Nashe, who dedicated the book to the Earl of Southampton. It is ...
The Unfortunate Traveller —which even sounds like a time-traveling science fiction adventure—is more at home in the literary zeitgeist of the 21st century that it has ever been at any time in history. In fact, the Elizabethan readers for whom Thomas Nashe originally wrote pretty collectively shrugged, tipped the balladeer, knocked back a ...
The first of the two narrative voices to address the reader in The Unfor-. tunate Traveller is the fictive one of Thomas Nashe himself in "The Induc-. tion to the dapper Mounsier Pages of the Court." He describes the text to come and, in doing so, begins to characterize himself and the second narra- tor, Jack Wilton:
This mocking portrayal of the melancholy man reveals Nashe's disposition toward the subject that dominates The Unfortunate Traveler. In his travel chronicle, Nashe attempts to diffuse and undermine the fashion for melan choly by attacking the values that generated it. In the 1580s, there was a sudden fascination among the British with
HE NARRATIVE AND RHETORICAL structure of Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller has vexed its critics almost since its initial appearance in 1593. Most modern critics have followed a line something akin to that of G.R. Hibbard, who sees Nashe as a writer unable at times to distinguish his own voice from that of the narrator, Jack
