Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680

Informationen zum Autor JOHN M. ADRIAN Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA, where he teaches courses on Renaissance Literature and directs the College's Honors Programme. He has published articles on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and culture in journals such as English Literary Renaissance , The Seventeenth Century , and Renaissance Papers . Klappentext Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Zusammenfassung Even in an age of emerging nationhood! English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes! towns! and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political! religious! and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Local Consciousness in Renaissance England William Lambarde and Tudor Centralization Michael Drayton and Jacobean Court Culture George Herbert and Caroline Religious Uniformity Izaak Walton, Lucy Hutchinson, and the Experience of Civil War The Country House Poem and the Localization of Empire Conclusion Notes Index

List of contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Local Consciousness in Renaissance England William Lambarde and Tudor Centralization Michael Drayton and Jacobean Court Culture George Herbert and Caroline Religious Uniformity Izaak Walton, Lucy Hutchinson, and the Experience of Civil War The Country House Poem and the Localization of Empire Conclusion Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: J M Adrian, J. M. Adrian, John Adrian, John M Adrian, John M. Adrian
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781349325610
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32561-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Early Modern Literature in History; Early Modern Literature in His; Early Modern Literature in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Cultural Studies, European History, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Europe—History—1492-, History of Early Modern Europe, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, civil war;culture;empire;England;poem;Renaissance