Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature
Shakespeare to Milton
Published on 1. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVII, 185 pages
978-1-349-39532-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book, original in emphasis, daring in execution, maps out the shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colonial identities through the work of major canonical authors including Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton. Informed throughout by the burgeoning fields of the new British history and postcolonial criticism, this volume marks a dramatic shift in studies of the early modern period, from Irish to British concerns, thus accounting for the interplay of union, plantation, and conquest.
Reviews / Votes
'Willey Maley's important book on 'the British problem' in relation to English Renaissance literature is a welcome contribution to the fields of Renaissance and colonial studies...the book brings those essays together beautifully, enabling us to hold in hand, and to teach, a series of strongly linked and very significant pieces...[his] view of Macmorris is fascinating and at odds with the conventional criticism surrounding that character.' - The Spenser Review
More details
Edition
1st ed. 2003
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XVII, 185 p.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-39532-3 (9781349395323)
DOI
10.1057/9781403990471
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
11/2002
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
WILLY MALEY is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. His many publications include two previous books with Palgrave Macmillan:
A Spenser Chronology
(1994), and
Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity
(1997). He is also co-editor of
Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534 - 1660
(1993),
Edmund Spenser: A View of the Present State of Ireland: From the First Published Edition
(1997),
Postcolonial Criticism
(1997), and
British Identities and English Renaissance Literature
(2002).
Content
Foreword by John Kerrigan Introduction 'The Sceptred Isle': Shakespeare and the British Problem Postcolonial Cymbeline : Sovereignty and Succession from Roman to Renaissance Britain Shakespeare, Holinshed, and Ireland: Resources and Contexts Forms of Discrimination in Spenser's A View of the State of Ireland (1596, 1633): Form Dialogue to Silence 'Another Britain?': Bacon's Certain Considerations Touching the Plantation in Ireland (1606, 1657) Fording the Nation: A Bridging History in Perkin Warbeck (1633) Milton's Observations (1649) and 'the complication of interests' in Early Modern Ireland Index