Roze Hentschell

The Culture of Cloth in Early Modern England

Textual Constructions of a National Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the intersections between the culture of the wool broadcloth industry and the imaginative literature of the early modern period, this study shows how the culture of the cloth industry was intrinsically connected to the development of emerging English nationalism. Each chapter ties a particular genre with a specific issue of the cloth industry, demonstrating the distinct work different literary genres contributed to the "culture of cloth."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780754663010
• ISBN-10: 0754663019
• Artikelnr.: 45540183

Autorenporträt

Roze Hentschell is Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: ancient, famous and decayed: the culture of cloth
in early modern England; Part 1 Resistance in the Flock: Labor Rebellion in
Pastoral Poetry and Prose Romance: Pasture and pastoral: sheep,
anti-enclosure literature, and Sidney's seditious peasants; Clothworkers
and social protest: the case of Thomas Deloney. Part 2 The Circulation of
Subjectivity in the Cloth Trade: 'Vente for our English clothes': promoting
early New World expansion; Treasonous textiles: foreign cloth and the
construction of Englishness. Part 3 Staging the Cloth Crisis: The fleecing
of England, or the drama of corrupt drapers: Thomas Middleton's Michaelmas
Term; Politics on parade: the Cockayne project and Anthony Munday's civic
pageants for the Drapers; Bibliography; Index.