Research Catalog

Title

Archipelagic identities : literature and identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800 / edited by Philip Schwyzer and Simon Mealor.

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Schwyzer, Philip.
• Mealor, Simon.

Description

x, 232 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The devolutionary shifts in British politics and the nature of British identity lead the contributors to this study to ask when and where was Britain. The notion of an Atlantic Archipelago is unfamiliar yet it allows a fresh approach to literary criticism and the assimilation of external ideas from neighbours.

Subject

• 1500-1799
• Geschichte 1550-1800
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > History
• National characteristics, British, in literature
• Group identity in literature
• Nationalism in literature
• Immigrants in literature
• British in literature
• British in literature
• English literature
• English literature > Early modern
• Group identity in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Immigrants in literature
• Literature
• National characteristics, British, in literature
• Nationalism and literature
• Nationalism in literature
• Englisch
• Literatur
• Atlantic Ocean Region > In literature
• Ireland > In literature
• Atlantic Ocean Region
• Great Britain
• Ireland
• Irland
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-223) and index.

Contents

• An uncertain union (a dialogue) / David Baker, Willy Maley -- This pleasant and sceptred isle: insular fantasies of national identity in Anne Dowriche's The French Historie and William Shakespear's Richard II / Kate Chedgzoy -- Whose pastorals? William Browne of Tavistock and the Singing of Britannia / Gillian Wright -- Defoe, Scotland, and Union / John Kerrigan -- Marrying waterways: politicizing and gendering the landscape in Spenser's Faerie Queene River-Marriage Canto / Joan Fitzpatrick -- From Irish countries to English counties: state sovereignty and territorial reorganization in early modern Ireland / Swen Voekel -- Spenser and the Stuart Succession / Andrew Hadfield -- Provincial identification and the struggle over representation in Thomas Coryat's Crudities (1611) / Melanie Ord -- The complaint of Caledonia: Scottish identity and the female voice / Murray G.H. Pittock -- 'A Witty Book, but mostly Feigned': William Richards' Wallagraphy and perceptions of Wales in later seventeenth-century England / Michael Roberts.
• 'Signes of a stranger': the English language and the English nation in the late sixteenth century / Emma Smith -- O Belle Tamise: the development of a huguenot pastoral mode in Elizabethan England / Simon Mealor -- 'Our British land': Anne Bradstreet's Atlantic perspective / Christopher Ivic.

ISBN

• 0754635848
• 9780754635840

LCCN

2003050261

OCLC

• ocm52133089
• 52133089
• SCSB-14510166

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library