Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 write by Cathy Shrank. This book was released on 2006-09-28. Writing the Nation in Reformation England, 1530-1580 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing the Nation in Reformation England offers 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, counsellors, 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 on English culture, before England emerged as a 'Protestant' nation.
Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England
Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England write by Helen Vella Bonavita. This book was released on 2017-02-03. Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more than being simply a narrative or character-driven issue, is a vital component in the evolving construction and representation of British national identity in prose and drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Through close reading of a range of plays and prose texts, the book offers readers new insight into the semiotics of bastardy and concepts of national identity in early modern England, and reflects on contemporary issues of citizenship and identity. The author examines play texts of the period including Bale's King Johan, Peele's The Troublesome Reign of John, and Shakespeare's King John, Richard II, and King Lear in the context of a selection of legal, religious, and polemical texts. In so doing, she illuminates the extent to which the figure of the bastard and, more generally the trope of illegitimacy, existed as a distinct discourse within the wider discursive framework of family and nation.
A Social History of England, 1500-1750
A Social History of England, 1500-1750 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Social History of England, 1500-1750 write by Keith Wrightson. This book was released on 2017-02-23. A Social History of England, 1500-1750 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first overview of early modern English social history since the 1980s, bringing together the leading authorities in the field.
Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama
Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama write by Adrian Streete. This book was released on 2017-08-17. Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Streete studies the political uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic rhetoric in a wide range of seventeenth-century English drama, focusing on the plays of Marston, Middleton, Massinger, and Dryden. Drawing on recent work in religious and political history, he rethinks how religion is debated in the early modern theatre.
The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England
The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England write by Rebecca Brackmann. This book was released on 2012. The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image. Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past. Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of theOld English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary society; through their work the period between the Germanic migrations and the Norman Conquest came to be regarded as a foundational time for Elizabethan England, overlapping with and contributing to contemporary debates on the shape of Elizabethan English language. Their studies took different strategies in demonstrating the role of early medieval history in Elizabethan national -- even imperial -- identity, while in Lambarde's legal writings Old English law codes become identical with the "ancient laws" that underpinned contemporary common law. Their efforts contradict the assumption that Anglo-Saxon studies did not effectively participate in Tudor nationalism outside of Protestant polemic; instead, it was a vital part of making history "English". Their work furthers our understanding of both the history of medieval studies and the importance of early Anglo-Saxon studies to Tudor nationalism. Rebecca Brackmann is Assistant Professor of English, Lincoln Memorial University.
