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Fashioning England and the English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Fashioning England and the English

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-07-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

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.

Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-12-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania offers the first systematic formal and thematic analysis of Wroth’s Urania in its historical context and explores the structural means by which Wroth fashions her readership. The book thus has a dual focus, at once on narrative art and reader formation. It makes two original claims, the first being that the Urania is not the unorganized accumulation of stories critics have tended to present it as, but a work of sophisticated narrative structures i.e. a complex text in a positive sense. These structures are revealed by means of a circumspect narratological analysis of the formal and thematic patterns that organise the Ur...

Gale Researcher Guide for: Mary Wroth: Rewriting the Sidney Canon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 9

Gale Researcher Guide for: Mary Wroth: Rewriting the Sidney Canon

Gale Researcher Guide for: Mary Wroth: Rewriting the Sidney Canon is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania

Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania offers the first systematic formal and thematic analysis of Wroth’s Urania in its historical context and explores the structural means by which Wroth fashions her readership. The book thus has a dual focus, at once on narrative art and reader formation. It makes two original claims, the first being that the Urania is not the unorganized accumulation of stories critics have tended to present it as, but a work of sophisticated narrative structures i.e. a complex text in a positive sense. These structures are revealed by means of a circumspect narratological analysis of the formal and thematic patterns that organise the Ur...

Gale Researcher Guide for: Print and Manuscript Cultures: The Case of Lady Mary Wroth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 10

Gale Researcher Guide for: Print and Manuscript Cultures: The Case of Lady Mary Wroth

Gale Researcher Guide for: Print and Manuscript Cultures: The Case of Lady Mary Wroth is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Shakespeare's Englishes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Shakespeare's Englishes

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of 'true' Englishness in his early plays.

Editing Early Modern Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Editing Early Modern Women

This volume offers a new and comprehensive exploration of the theory and practice of editing early modern women's writing.

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-02-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth-century. The contributors address issues such as subjectivity, performance, voice, narrative time, character development and genre, placing their readings of early modern prose texts within the diachronic frame of the overall topic. Individual chapters will treat texts from a variety of genres, offering analyses of individual texts in the context of changes and developments within literary forms. The book in its entirety will cover a period of approximately 350 years, from 1370 to 1720.

Early Modern Others
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 158

Early Modern Others

Early Modern Others highlights instances of challenges to misogyny, racism, atheism, and antisemitism in the early modern period. Through deeply historicizing early modern literature and looking at its political and social contexts, Peter C. Herman explores how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age. By examining the works of Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Fletcher, and Philip Massinger amongst others, Herman reveals that for every “-ism” in early modern English culture there was an “anti-ism” pushing back against it. The book investigates “others” in early modern literature through indigenous communities, women, religion, people of color, and class. This innovative book shows that the early modern period was as complicated and as contradictory as the world today. It will offer valuable insight for anyone studying early modern literature and culture, as well as social justice and intersectionality.

Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth

A detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature, the book shows how a republican myth contributed to Romanticism and liberalism.