Research Catalog

Title

British identities and English Renaissance literature / edited by David J. Baker and Willy Maley.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baker, David J., 1957-
• Maley, Willy.

Description

xvi, 297 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"In this volume, a team of leading Renaissance literary critics read a broad range of texts from the period, including the plays of Shakespeare, in light of the new British history. Prominent historians respond to the issues raised by the volume. This collection opens up a new kind of literary history and has pressing relevance for discussions of 'Britishness' today. This volume should interest all literary and political historians working on the British identities and Renaissance literature."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1500-1700
• Geschichte 1550-1700
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 16th century
• Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century
• National characteristics, British, in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Group identity in literature
• Renaissance > Great Britain
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700
• English literature > Early modern
• Literature and history
• Renaissance
• Englisch
• Literatur
• Nationalbewusstsein
• Politische Identität
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Letterkunde
• Engels
• Nationale identiteit
• National characteristics, English, in literature
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-291) and index.

Contents

Introduction. An uncertain union / David J. Baker, Willy Maley -- I. Opening the field -- British history and "The British history": the same old story? / Philip Schwyzer -- Revising criticism: Ireland and the British model / Andrew Murphy -- II. Contested peripheries -- "Lost British lamb": English Catholic exiles and the problem of Britain / Christopher Highley -- Making history: Holinshed's Irish chronicles, 1577 and 1587 / Richard A. McCabe -- III. British Shakespeare -- I Henry IV: methatheatrical Britain / Matthew Greenfield -- Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry V / Patricia Parker -- Delving to the root: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English race / Mary Floyd-Wilson -- IV. Union questions -- Reinventing the matter of Britain: undermining the state in Jacobean masques / Philippa Berry, Jayne Elisabeth Archer -- Mapping British identities: Speed's Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine / Christopher Ivic -- V. Britain's brave new world -- Bruited aboroad: John White and Thomas Harriot's colonial representations of ancient Britain / Andrew Hadfield -- Commonwealth of the word: New England, old England, and the praying Indians / Linda Gregerson -- VI. Restoring Britain -- Orrery's Ireland and the British problem, 1641-1679 / John Kerrigan -- Jacobite literature and national identities / Murray Pittock -- VII. Historians respond -- Literature and the new British and Irish histories / Jane Ohlmeyer -- Text, time, and the pursuit of "British identities" / Derek Hirst.

ISBN

• 0521782007
• 9780521782005
• 0521189683
• 9780521189682

LCCN

2001052444

OCLC

• ocm48140819
• 48140819
• SCSB-1259504

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library