The making of Englishmen : debates on national identity 1550-1650
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The making of Englishmen : debates on national identity 1550-1650
(Studies in the history of political thought / edited by Terence Ball, Jörn Leonhard, Wyger Velema, v. 8)
Brill, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-335) and index
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Description
Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be construed as free, plain and unCatholic, and situate this construction as part of a larger attempt to create a narrative which would distinguish them from the rest of Europe.
But all such attempts were fraught with anxiety and contestation. The normative ideals of Englishness were constantly being undermined, affronted and ignored. In the disarray characteristic of the post-Reformation era, there were constant fears that the Englishman was becoming both slavish and treacherous in political, cultural and religious ways. Englishness was under threat.
Table of Contents
Preface
Conventions
List of Figures
Introduction
PART ONE: THE PLAIN ENGLISHMAN
1. The Rise of an Ethos of Plainness
2. The Plain-Speaking Englishman
A Language in Flux
The Cult of Homespun Speech
Politicisation of the Plain Englishman
The Speech of Returned Travellers
The Courtier's Velvet Terms
Discoursing Gestures
3. The Image of the Englishman
The Politics of Appearances
A Golden Age of Native Dress
The Materials of Identity
A World of Fashions
Dressing the Head
PART TWO: THE LOYAL ENGLISHMAN
4. The Development of an Anti-Catholic Narrative
5. The Estrangement of English Catholics
Constructing a Plain, Protestant and Un-French Utopia
The Alienation of the Jesuits
The ideological battle against Spanishness
Debating National Authenticity
6. The Fabrication of a Jesuited Mock Weal
Catholic Reassertions of Englishness
Staging Englishness and Jesuitism
Machiavels and Mercuries in the Caroline Era
The Triumph of a Stereotype
PART THREE: THE FREE ENGLISHMAN
7. The Growth of a Rhetoric of Liberty
8. The Rights-Bearing Englishman
Early Statements in Parliament
The 1628 Synthesis of Rights
Liberties as Popular Polemic
The New Enemies of Liberty
Revolutionary Implications
9. The Neo-Classical Englishman
The Roman Tradition
The Spectre of National Decline
The Brink of Degeneration
The Classical Republican Turn
The 'Fate' of English Liberty
Conclusion
Bibliography
Manuscripts
Printed Primary Sources
Secondary Works
Index
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