The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590–1612
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
- Author: Claire McEachern, University of California, Los Angeles
- Date Published: January 2007
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- isbn: 9780521030946
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The Poetics of English Nationhood is a 1996 study of the formation of English national identity during the early modern period. Claire McEachern aims to recontextualize our understanding of the term literary through an examination of Spenser, Shakespeare and Drayton. She shows how the concept of nationality in their work is always fluid; it crucially depends on a sense of intimacy that exends across and beyond hierarchies and boundaries. McEachern shows how those texts we traditionally label literary already encode and personify power, thereby sealing the intimacy which binds the nation as an imagined community. The representation of faith, fatherland and crown in Tudor texts continually personified English political institutions, promoting an enduring social order and collective unity. By focusing on the rhetorical forms of cultural unity in Tudor texts, McEachern traces a profound shift from a monarchically defined Englishness to a system based within the cultural institution of the common law.
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- Date Published: January 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030946
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.388kg
- contains: 11 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. This England
2. Sects and the single woman: Spenser's national romance
3. Speaking in common: Henry V and the paradox of the body politic
4. Putting the 'poly' back in Poly-Olbion: British union and the borders of the English nation
Epilogue
Notes
Index.
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