Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature

Shakespeare to Milton
2003. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-333-64077-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 185 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maley, Willy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

WILLY MALEY is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. His many publications include two previous books with Palgrave Macmillan: (1994), and (1997). He is also co-editor of (1993), (1997), (1997), and (2002).