The Unfortunate Traveller
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The Unfortunate Traveller is a 1594 picaresque prose narrative by Thomas Nashe that follows the violent, satirical adventures of the roguish page Jack Wilton across Renaissance Europe.
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Elizabethan prose fiction
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picaresque novel ⓘ prose narrative ⓘ |
| alternateClassification | romance-pamphlet ⓘ |
| approximateLength | short novel ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Nashe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
anti-war commentary
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religious controversy ⓘ travel narrative elements ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| depicts |
continental travel
ⓘ
wars in Renaissance Europe ⓘ |
| genre |
picaresque fiction
ⓘ
satirical fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Jack Wilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
picaro
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rogue ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception |
considered innovative in English prose fiction
ⓘ
studied for its experimental narrative form ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | development of the English novel ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeStructure | episodic ⓘ |
| historicalContext | late Elizabethan era ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | picaresque ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
digressive
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grotesque ⓘ rhetorically elaborate ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack Wilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of English picaresque
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violent and satirical episodes ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | English Renaissance literature ⓘ |
| printedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | page ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1594 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Renaissance Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
instability of identity
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religious hypocrisy ⓘ satire of courtly and military life ⓘ social criticism ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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satirical ⓘ violent ⓘ |
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