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The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590 1612

The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590 1612

McEachern, Claire
Orgel, Stephen
Barton, Anne

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Book 13

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0521030943
ISBN13: 9780521030946
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 18 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Poetics of English Nationhood is a study of the formation of English national identity during the early modern period. Claire McEachern shows how the representation of faith, fatherland and crown in Tudor texts continually personified English political institutions. Those texts we traditionally label literary, she argues, already encode and personify power relations, thereby reinforcing the idea of the nation as an imaginary force. McEachern's study revises our understanding of the term literary through an examination of Spenser, Shakespeare and Drayton, tracing the means by which an English national identity was inscribed as part of an enduring social order.

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