Forms of nationhood : the Elizabethan writing of England
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Forms of nationhood : the Elizabethan writing of England
University of Chicago Press, 1992
Available at 27 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-350) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What have poems and maps, law books and plays, ecclesiastical polemics and narratives of overseas exploration to do with one another? By most accounts, very little. They belong to different genres and have been appropriated by scholars in different disciplines. But, as Richard Helgerson shows in this ambitious and wide-ranging study, all were part of an extraordinary sixteenth- and seventeenth-century enterprise: the project of making England.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Note on the Text Introduction: The Kingdom of Our Own Language 1: Two Versions of Gothic Barbarous Tongues The Politics of Chivalric Romance A Miltonic Revision 2: Writing the Law Plans for an English Corpus Juris Reporting the Unwritten Law The Form of Coke's Institutes Uncouth Learning and Professional Pride 3: The Land Speaks Maps and the Signs of Authority From Court to Country The Ideology of Place and Particularity The Muse on Progress Chorography and Whiggery 4: The Voyages of a Nation Class, Nation, and Camoes Commodity and Vent Merchants, Gentlemen, and Their Genres Spain's Tyrannical Ambition Posthumous Writings and Rewritings 5: Staging Exclusion Popular Revolt Carnival and Clowns Losing the Common Touch Purged from Barbarism 6: Apocalyptics and Apologetics Antichrist and the Suffering Elect Defending the Ecclesiastical Polity In the Body of the Beast Afterword: Engendering the Nation-State Notes Index
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