Editors:
Thanks to the diachronic span of the volume from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, the essays bear witness to changing views of England and the English in literature and to the processes by which literary texts themselves participate in these changes
Brings into conversation less well-known voices with a restricted number of canonical authors like Wordsworth, Woolf and Shakespeare
Pays attention to women writers’ negotiation of ideas of the nation and the roles female figures play in male writers’ conceptions of nationhood.
Engages with a variety of public discourses and literary genres, ranging from religious discourse and saints’ lives to political travel narrative
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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(Re)Forming the Commonwealth
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Front Matter
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Importing and Exporting Texts and Ideologies
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Front Matter
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Explorations of Belonging
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores how literary texts envision England and respond to discourses and conceptions of Englishness and the English nation, especially in relation to gender and language. The essays discuss texts from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and bear witness to changing views of England and the English, highlighting the importance of religion, economy, landscape, the spectre of the “other” and language in this discourse. The volume pays attention to women writers’ reflection on the nation and the roles female figures play in male writers’ visions of nationhood. It brings into conversation less well-known voices like those of Osbern Bokenham, Thomas Deloney, Eleanor Davies and Jacquetta Hawkes with canonical authors—William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf—and opens a space for exploring the interplay of dominant and variant voices in the fashioning of England.
Editors and Affiliations
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Thun, Switzerland
Rahel Orgis
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University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Matthias Heim
About the editors
Rahel Orgis is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. She is the author of Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania (2017) and has published articles on early modern prose fiction and drama in the Sidney Journal, SPELL and ELR.
Matthias Heim works as digital publications manager for hep publishing in Berne, Switzerland. He has undertaken research on the space of war in early modern plays and investigated Shakespeare’s low-frequency vocabulary through computer-aided statistics at the University of Neuchâtel. Currently he explores how battlefield images in cinema shape modern readings of battles in Shakespeare’s plays.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fashioning England and the English
Book Subtitle: Literature, Nation, Gender
Editors: Rahel Orgis, Matthias Heim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92126-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92125-9Published: 13 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06368-9Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92126-6Published: 27 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 322
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature