Philip Schwyzer

Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales

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Produktbeschreibung

Philip Schwyzer charts the genesis, development and disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780521125420
• ISBN-10: 0521125421
• Artikelnr.: 27381727

Autorenporträt

Philip Schwyzer is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Remembering Britain
1. Spenser's spark: British blood and British nationalism in the Tudor era
2. Bale's books and Aske's abbeys: nostalgia and the aesthetics of nationhood
3. 'Awake, lovely Wales': national identity and cultural memory
4. Ghosts of a nation: A Mirror for Magistrates and the poetry of spectral complaint
5. 'I am Welsh, you know': the nation in Henry V
6. 'Is this the promised end?': James I, King Lear, and the strange death of Tudor Britain
Bibliography.