Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 512 g
Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 512 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-18968-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Though British history and identity in the early modern period are intensively researched areas, the role of literature in the construction of 'Britishness' is under-examined. English history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often overlooks the contribution of Ireland, Scotland and Wales to the formation of the British state. Historians describe 'Britain' as a multiple kingdom, with a long history of conflict. In this 2002 volume, a team of leading Renaissance literary critics read a broad range of texts from the period, including plays of Shakespeare, in light of British history. Prominent historians respond to the issues raised by the volume. This collection opened up a different kind of literary history and has pressing relevance for discussions of 'Britishness'.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
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Introduction David Baker and Willy Maley
Part I: Opening the Field: 1. British history and 'the British history': the same old story? Philip Schwyzer
2. An uncertain union David Baker and Willy Maley
3. Revising criticism: Ireland and the British model Andrew Murphy
Part II. Contested Peripheries: 4. 'The lost British lamb': English Catholic exiles and the problem of Britain Christopher Highley
5. 'Making history': Holinshed's Irish chronicles, 1577 and 1587 Richard A. McCabe
Part III. British Shakespeare: 6. Henry IV: metatheatrical Britain Matthew Greenfield
7. Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry V Patricia Parker
8. Delving to the root: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English race Mary Floyd-Wilson
Part IV. Union Questions: 9. Reinventing the matter of Britain: undermining the state in Jacobean masques Jayne Elisabeth Archer and Philippa Berry
10. Mapping British identities: Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine Christopher Ivic
Part V. Britain's Brave New World: 11. Bruited abroad: John White and Thomas Harriot's Colonial Representations of Ancient Britain Andrew Hadfield
12. The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old England, and the Praying Indians Linda Gregerson
Part VI. Restoring Britain: 13. Orrery's Ireland and the British problem, 1641–1679 John Kerrigan
14. Jacobite literature and national Identities Murray Pittock
Part VII: 15. Historians respond: literature and the new British and Irish histories Jane Ohlmeyer
16. Text, time, and the pursuit of 'British Identities' Derek Hirst.
