Umfang:
XI, 239 S. : Ill.
Ausgabe:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0-521-57031-X
Serie:
Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture 13
Inhalt:
The Poetics of English Nationhood is a study of the formation of English national identity during the early modern period. Claire McEachern argues for the role of Reformation religious culture in the shaping of a Tudor-Stuart nation, and examines its presence in the writings of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Drayton. She shows how in their work the concept of nationality is always fluid; it crucially depends on a sense of intimacy that seeps across and above hierarchies and boundaries. McEachern shows how different kinds of language - literary, exegetical, parliamentary - personify power, thereby sealing the intimacy which binds the nation as an imagined community. The representation of faith, motherland, and crown in Tudor-Stuart texts, she argues, continually personified English political institutions, promoting both social order and collective unity
Inhalt:
By focusing on the rhetorical forms of cultural unity in the Reformation era, McEachern traces a profound shift from a monarchically defined Englishness to a system based within the cultural institution of the common law
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Englisch
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Literatur
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Nationalbewusstsein
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1552-1599 Spenser, Edmund
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Nationalbewusstsein
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1564-1616 King Henry V Shakespeare, William
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Nationalbewusstsein
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1563-1631 The Poly-Olbion Drayton, Michael
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Nationalliteratur
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam027/95052325.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam024/95052325.html
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