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Body Narratives

Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England

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  1. Susanne Scholz
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Susanne Scholz
      Pages 1-12

  3. The Subject’s New Body

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Well-Tempered Bodies: Self-Government and Subjectivity

      • Susanne Scholz
      Pages 15-37

    3. Imagined Individuals: A Body of One’s Own

      • Susanne Scholz
      Pages 38-56

    4. Gendered Objects: Sexualizing the Female Body

      • Susanne Scholz
      Pages 57-77

  4. The Body of the Nation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Time, Space, and the Body in the Narrative of the Nation

      • Susanne Scholz
      Pages 81-105

    3. Internal Imperialism: Domestic Loyalties

      • Susanne Scholz
      Pages 106-126

    4. Astraea’s Substitute: Ireland and the Quest for National Unity

      • Susanne Scholz
      Pages 127-147

    5. Female Territories: Textualizing the Body of the Other

      • Susanne Scholz
      Pages 148-173

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 174-208
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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.

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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

This is a smart book with much to offer... Journal of Interdisciplinary History

About the author

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

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