Body Narratives - Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England

Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion and gender difference.

List of contents

Acknowledgements A Note on the Text Introduction PART I: THE SUBJECT'S NEW BODY Well-tempered Bodies: Self-Government and Subjectivity Imagined Individuals: A Body of One's Own Gendered Objects: Sexualizing the Female Body PART II: THE BODY OF THE NATION Time, Space and the Body in the Narrative of the Nation Internal Imperialism: Domestic Loyalties Astraea's Substitute: Ireland and the Quest for National Unity Female Territories: Textualizing the Body of the Other Notes Index Bibliography Index

About the author

Susanne Scholz is Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Paderborn University in Germany.

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"This is a useful book in its ability to bring recent scholarship, theory, and familiar texts together...." - Elizabeth D. Harvey, Renaissance Quarterly
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Product details

• Authors: S Scholz, S. Scholz
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349414185
• ISBN: 978-1-349-41418-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 219 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 283 g
• Illustrations: IX, 208 p.
• Series: Writing the Nation and Fashion
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies