시장바닥의 인문학자: 하비-내쉬 팸플릿 전쟁

Abstract

The Harvey-Nashe Controversy is a pamphlet series made up of Harvey’s three pamphlets and Nashe’s four works, written from 1592 to 1596. Harvey’s pamphlets are Fovre Letters, A New Letter of Notable Contents, and Pierce’s Supererogation, and Nashe’s pamphlets are Pierce Penilesse, Christs Teares Ouer Ierusalem, Strange Newes, and Have with You to Saffron-Walden. The root of the controversy goes back to Richard Harvey’s insult to Nashe in 1589, but the real fight started in 1592 with Nashe’s attack on Harvey brothers and their father, a rope-maker. Even though those seven pamphlets written for the Controversy mainly contain harsh personal attacks and vicious libels against each other, they also show considerable similarity in their pride and frustration as discarded humanists in the print market, in their expectation and anxiety as professional writers, and even in their personal backgrounds. As the graduates of Cambridge driven to the marketplace, both writers suffered from their peripheral existence and displayed ambivalent attitude to the press and their new ‘patrons,’ the readers. Notwithstanding their remarkable similarities, meaningful differences exist in their attitude to the press and the print market, leading to their differentiated construction of authorship and authorial authority. Harvey, an old-generation humanist and former Cambridge professor of Latin rhetoric, expressed ambivalence and reluctance to the new print culture and did not hide his envy toward the young and versatile professional writers like Nashe. Nashe, on the other hand, constructed his authorial authority based on his peripheral status as “daily labor” and created a self-consciously trivialized but self-powered authorship in this new era of the print.