UID:
almafu_9959231322102883
Format:
1 online resource (302 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-151417-9
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1-4294-3087-7
Content:
This book is a unique study of a neglected period of English writing. It places mid-Tudor literature within the context of important debates about English nationhood, the nature of the English Reformation and English humanism, the growth of the political nation, and how Renaissance writers constructed authorial identities in manuscript and print. - ;Writing the Nation in Reformation England offers a major re-evaluation of English writing between 1530 and 1580. Studying authors such as Andrew Borde, John Leland, William Thomas, Thomas Smith, and Thomas Wilson, Cathy Shrank highlights the signif
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; List of Abbreviations; Note on Transcriptions, Translations, and References; Introduction; 1 Andrew Borde: Authorship and Identity in Reformation England; 2 John Leland and 'the bowels of Antiquity'; 3 William Thomas and the Riches of the Vulgar Tongue; 4 Thomas Smith and the Senate of Letters; 5 Thomas Wilson and the Limits of English Rhetoric; 6 'Workshops of the New Poetry': The Shepheardes Calendar and Old Arcadia; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-921100-0
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=422945
