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The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590 1612

The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590 1612

McEachern, Claire
Orgel, Stephen
Barton, Anne

Hardcover

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

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 052157031X
ISBN13: 9780521570312
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 28 1996
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.31
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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