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Nation State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature 1st Edition by Willy Maley ISBN 9781403990471 1403990476

Name: Nation State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature 1st Edition by Willy Maley ISBN 9781403990471 1403990476
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ISBN 10: 1403990476
ISBN 13: 9781403990471
Author: Willy Maley

This book, original in emphasis, daring in execution, maps out the shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colonial identities through the work of major canonical authors including Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton. Informed throughout by the burgeoning fields of the new British history and postcolonial criticism, this volume marks a dramatic shift in studies of the early modern period, from Irish to British concerns, thus accounting for the interplay of union, plantation, and conquest.

Nation State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction: Fostering Discussion – From the Irish Question to the British Problem by Way of the

1 ‘This Sceptred Isle’: Shakespeare and the British Problem

2 Postcolonial Cymbeline: Sovereignty and Succession from Roman to Renaissance Britain

3 Shakespeare, Holinshed and Ireland: Resources and Con-texts

4 Forms of Discrimination in Spenser’s A View of the State of Ireland (1596; 1633): From Dialogue

5 ‘Another Britain’? Bacon’s Certain Considerations Touching the Plantation in Ireland (1606;

6 Fording the Nation: Abridging History in Perkin Warbeck (1633)

7 Milton’s Observations (1649) and ‘the Complication of Interests’ in Early Modern Ireland

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