Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Everyday Aesthetics
Mind the Gap
Skepticism and the Writing of the Urban Everyday
Chapter 1 Thomas Nashe and the Processingof Urban Experience
Humanism, Patronage, and an Itinerant Nashe
Nashe in London
Noise, Silence, Contention
Nashe's Corners: Private and Public in Have with You to Saffron Waldon
Nashean Aesthetics: Reality in Motion
Chapter 2 Pierce's Heirs: Satire at the Inns of Court and in the City

Nashean Contention and the Satire Epidemic of the 1590s
Going Outside at the Inns of Court
Urban Muck: Derision and Skepticism in Marston's Poetry
"Palpable Dark": Style in the Inns Satires
Chapter 3 The Social Quotidian in John Manningham's Diary
The Diary, Contention, and the Empty Pleasures of the Jest
What Happens in the Hall...
Experience and Diurnal Form in Manningham's Diary
Chapter 4 Stillness and Noise: Donne's Songs and Sonnets in circa 1600 London
Public and Private Voice in Donne's Lyrics
Donne's Rooms
Inconstancy and Loss in Donne's London

Donne's Lyrics and the Urban Metaphysical
Epilogue: The Future of the Metaphysical
Bibliography
Index