Archipelagic Identities
Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800
1st Edition
Published on 17. March 2004
Book
Hardback
242 pages
978-0-7546-3584-0 (ISBN)
Description
Archipelagic Identities explores the invention and interplay of national, regional and linguistic identities in the literatures of early modern Britain and Ireland. The volume includes innovative work by leading practitioners of British studies, and sheds new light on classic cases such as Edmund Spenser's Irish experience, whilst also introducing less familiar writers and texts, such as Anne Dowriche's The French Historie, William Browne's Britannia Pastorals, William Richards' Wallography, Anne Bradstreet's 'Dialogue between Old England and New', and the works of Gaelic bards and French Huguenot refugees. Foregrounding issues of gender, class and migratory identity which have not previously received significant attention in this field, Archipelagic Identities brings British studies into the mainstream of contemporary literary criticism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-3584-0 (9780754635840)
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Simon Mealor | Philip Schwyzer
Archipelagic Identities
Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800
E-Book
09/2017
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Simon Mealor | Philip Schwyzer
Archipelagic Identities
Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800
E-Book
09/2017
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter, UK and Simon Mealor, formerly Hertford College Oxford, UK Philip Schwyzer, David Baker, Willy Maley, Kate Chedgzoy, Gillian Wright, John Kerrigan, Joan Fitzpatrick, Swen Voekel, Andrew Hadfield, Melanie Ord, Murray G.H. Pittock, Michael Roberts, Emma Smith, Simon Mealor, Christopher Ivic.
Content
Contents: Introduction; Philip Schwyzer; An uncertain union (a dialogue), David Baker and Willy Maley; Part I Looking for Britain: This pleasant and sceptred isle: insular fantasies of national identity in Anne Dowriche's The French Historie and William Shakespeare's Richard II, Kate Chedgzoy; Whose pastorals? William Browne of Tavistock and the Singing of Britannia, Gillian Wright; Defoe, Scotland and Union, John Kerrigan; Part II Spenser's Islands: Marrying waterways: politicizing and gendering the landscape in Spenser's Faerie Queene River-Marriage Canto, Joan Fitzpatrick; From Irish countries to English counties: state sovereignty and territorial reorganization in early modern Ireland, Swen Voekel; Spenser and the Stuart succession, Andrew Hadfield; Part III Representing the Nation: Provincial identification and the struggle over representation in Thomas Coryat's Crudities (1611), Melanie Ord; The complaint of Caledonia: Scottish identity and the female voice, Murray G.H. Pittock; 'A witty book, but mostly feigned': William Richards' Wallography and perceptions of Wales in later 17th-century England, Michael Roberts; Part IV Immigrants and Emigrants: 'Signes of a Stranger': the English language and the English Nation in the late 16th century, Emma Smith; O Belle Tamise: the development of a Huguenot pastoral mode in Elizabethan England, Simon Mealor; 'Our British land': Anne Bradstreet's Atlantic perspective, Christopher Ivic; Bibliography; Index.