ABSTRACT
This final chapter focuses on Thomas Nashe’s prose fiction, Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Diuell (1592). I argue that in this text, Nashe builds a wholly unpleasant mosaic of St Paul’s Churchyard and the London book trade. He deploys a strain of material imagery to present texts as waste products and the bookselling zone of St Paul’s Churchyard as both abject and threatening. However, this portrayal is balanced with Nashe’s suggestion of a post-textual meaning for print. My aim in this chapter is to recontextualise Nashe with the other authors that I have identified in this study.
