Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800Philip Schwyzer, Simon Mealor Archipelagic Identities explores the invention and interplay of national, regional and linguistic identities in the literatures of early modern Britain and Ireland. The volume includes innovative work by leading practitioners of British studies, and sheds new light on classic cases such as Edmund Spenser's Irish experience, whilst also introducing less familiar writers and texts, such as Anne Dowriche's The French Historie, William Browne's Britannia Pastorals, William Richards' Wallography, Anne Bradstreet's 'Dialogue between Old England and New', and the works of Gaelic bards and French Huguenot refugees. Foregrounding issues of gender, class and migratory identity which have not previously received significant attention in this field, Archipelagic Identities brings British studies into the mainstream of contemporary literary criticism. |
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... not now and never has been a British identity that amounts to more than a tenuous , contradiction - ridden ideal . This is true both ' theoretically ' - although Willy : David : I use that word with caution 10 Archipelagic Identities.
... not now and never has been a British identity that amounts to more than a tenuous , contradiction - ridden ideal . This is true both ' theoretically ' - although Willy : David : I use that word with caution 10 Archipelagic Identities.
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... ideal allegorical body , to the head , which is ' lifted high aboue this earthly masse , / Which it suruew'd , as hils doen lower ground ' ( II.ix.45 ) . In the second chamber , they find a ' man of ripe and perfect age ' who is ...
... ideal allegorical body , to the head , which is ' lifted high aboue this earthly masse , / Which it suruew'd , as hils doen lower ground ' ( II.ix.45 ) . In the second chamber , they find a ' man of ripe and perfect age ' who is ...
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... ideal home that functions as a model , a goal and a reassurance for French immigrants . This section in Familiar Dialogues is called ' At the table ' , and is very lively , embellished with witty touches . The list of characters are ...
... ideal home that functions as a model , a goal and a reassurance for French immigrants . This section in Familiar Dialogues is called ' At the table ' , and is very lively , embellished with witty touches . The list of characters are ...
Contents
Insular Fantasies of National | 25 |
Whose Pastorals? William Browne of Tavistock and | 43 |
Politicizing and Gendering | 81 |
Copyright | |
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