British Identities and English Renaissance Literature
British Identities and English Renaissance Literature
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GBPThough British history and identity in the early modern period are intensively researched areas, the role of literature in the construction of 'Britishness' is under-examined. English history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often overlooks the contribution of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the formation of the British state. Historians describe 'Britain' as a multiple kingdom, with a long history of conflict. In this 2002 volume, a team of leading Renaissance literary critics read a broad range of texts from the period, including plays of Shakespeare, in light of British history. Prominent historians respond to the issues raised by the volume. This collection opened up a different kind of literary history and has pressing relevance for discussions of 'Britishness'.
- A first-class collection with contributions from established scholars
- Covers a fascinating and enduring subject matter
- Will interest historians as well as literature scholars
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June 2011Paperback
9780521189682
314 pages
229 × 152 × 18 mm
0.46kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction David Baker and Willy Maley
- Part I: Opening the Field:
- 1. British history and 'the British history': the same old story? Philip Schwyzer
- 2. An uncertain union David Baker and Willy Maley
- 3. Revising criticism: Ireland and the British model Andrew Murphy
- Part II. Contested Peripheries:
- 4. 'The lost British lamb': English Catholic exiles and the problem of Britain Christopher Highley
- 5. 'Making history': Holinshed's Irish chronicles, 1577 and 1587 Richard A. McCabe
- Part III. British Shakespeare:
- 6. Henry IV: metatheatrical Britain Matthew Greenfield
- 7. Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry V Patricia Parker
- 8. Delving to the root: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English race Mary Floyd-Wilson
- Part IV. Union Questions:
- 9. Reinventing the matter of Britain: undermining the state in Jacobean masques Jayne Elisabeth Archer and Philippa Berry
- 10. Mapping British identities: Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine Christopher Ivic
- Part V. Britain's Brave New World:
- 11. Bruited abroad: John White and Thomas Harriot's Colonial Representations of Ancient Britain Andrew Hadfield
- 12. The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old England, and the Praying Indians Linda Gregerson
- Part VI. Restoring Britain:
- 13. Orrery's Ireland and the British problem, 1641–1679 John Kerrigan
- 14. Jacobite literature and national Identities Murray Pittock
- Part VII:
- 15. Historians respond: literature and the new British and Irish histories Jane Ohlmeyer
- 16. Text, time, and the pursuit of 'British Identities' Derek Hirst.
