Nicholas Breton and the English Self
Published on 31. December 2013
Book
Hardback
283 pages
978-3-631-64503-1 (ISBN)
Description
Nicholas Breton (1545/55-1626?) was one of the most prolific writers of the Early Modern period and left behind a vast ouvre that is, however, largely neglected today. Breton addresses instrumental questions of his time, especially those of man's identity. This study concentrates on a selection of Breton's political texts in which Breton contrasts the Self against the Other. These texts not only stigmatise the Other as the undesired, the unknown and the indecipherable, but also construct a patriotic and uniform English identity to be imitated by all Englishmen and Englishwomen: the English Self.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2013
Greifswald, Univ.
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-64503-1 (9783631645031)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-03402-8
Schweitzer Classification
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Conny Loder
Nicholas Breton and the English Self
E-Book
01/2014
150th Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€81.59
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Person
Conny Loder took a MLitt at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) and a PhD at the University of Greifswald (Germany). Her research focuses on Elizabethan and Jacobean reception of Machiavelli's works, particular on drama and pamphlets and on Shakespeare Studies. She is a member of the Renaissance Drama Research Group, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon (United Kingdom). In another life, she was on a Fulbright grant, teaching German at Pacific University, Oregon (USA).
Content
Contents: New Historicism - Cultural Studies - Human Nature - Intellect - Political and Cultural Identity - Anti-capitalistic Tendencies - Self and Other.