Literature, nationalism, and memory in early modern England and Wales / Philip Schwyzer.

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Schwyzer, Philip

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 194 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511231458
9780511231452
0511229062
9780511229060
0511229909
9780511229909
9780521843034
0521843030
9780511483950
0511483953
1280703288
9781280703287
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9781107163577
0511230680
9780511230684
0511316674
9780511316678

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literature, nationalism, and memory in early modern England and Wales.DDC classification:

820.9/358 22

LOC classification:

PR428.N37 S39 2004eb

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18.05

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 of English literature and identity.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.

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 of English literature and identity.