Literature, nationalism, and memory in early modern England and Wales /

Philip Schwyzer charts the genesis, development and disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. An important contribution to the scholarship on early modern Britishness, this study argues that Welsh texts and traditions crucially influenced the development...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwyzer, Philip
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Temas:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
National characteristics, Welsh, in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Britons in literature.
Memory in literature.
Nationalisme et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Nationalisme et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Littérature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Littérature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Britanniques dans la littérature.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
Bretons de Grande-Bretagne dans la littérature.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern.
Literature.
Literature and history.
Nationalism and literature.
Nationalisme.
Wales > In literature.
Pays de Galles > Dans la littérature.
Great Britain.
Wales.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Remembering Britain
  • Spenser's spark : British blood and British nationalism in the Tudor era
  • Bale's books and Aske's abbeys : nostalgia and the aesthetics of nationhood
  • "Awake, lovely Wales" : national identity and cultural memory
  • Ghosts of a nation : A mirror for magistrates and the poetry of spectral complaint
  • "I am Welsh, you know" : the nation in Henry V
  • "Is this the promised end?" : James I, King Lear, and the strange death of Tudor Britain.

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