Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 - Couverture souple

Shrank, Cathy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199211000 ISBN 13 : 9780199211005

Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2007

Synopsis

Writing the Nation in Reformation England is a major re-evaluation of English writing between 1530 and 1580. Studying authors such as Andrew Borde, John Leland, William Thomas, Thomas Smith, and Thomas Wilson, Cathy Shrank highlights the significance of these decades to the formation of English nationhood and examines the impact of the break with Rome on the development of a national language, literary style, and canon. As well as demonstrating the close relationship between literary culture and English identities, it reinvests Tudor writers with a sense of agency. As authors, counselors, and thinkers they were active citizens participating within, and helping to shape, a national community. In the process, their works were also used to project an image of themselves as authors, playing-and fitted to play-their part in the public domain. In showing how these writers engaged with, and promoted, concepts of national identity, the book makes a significant contribution to our broader understanding of the early modern period, demonstrating that nationhood was not a later Elizabethan phenomenon, and that the Reformation had an immediate impact of English culture, before England emerged as a "Protestant" nation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cathy Shrank lectures in Renaissance Literature at the University of Sheffield

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199211000
• ISBN 13: 9780199211005
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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