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Local negotiations of English nationhood, 1570-1680 John M. Adrian text

By: Adrian, John MMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Early modern literature in historyPublication details: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2011Description: 238p. HbkISBN: 9780230277717 Subject(s): English prose literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism | Regionalism in literature | Local history in literature | Literature and society - England - History - 17th century | Literature and society - England - History - 16th century | National characteristics, English, in literatureDDC classification: 820.9 ADR
Contents:
Introduction -- Local consciousness in Renaissance England -- William Lambarde and Tudor centralization -- Michael Drayton and Jacobean court culture -- George Herbert and Caroline religious uniformity -- Izaak Walton, Lucy Hutchinson, and the experience of Civil War -- The country house poem and the localization of Empire.
Summary: "Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
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<p>Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-225) and index.</p>

Introduction -- Local consciousness in Renaissance England -- William Lambarde and Tudor centralization -- Michael Drayton and Jacobean court culture -- George Herbert and Caroline religious uniformity -- Izaak Walton, Lucy Hutchinson, and the experience of Civil War -- The country house poem and the localization of Empire.

"Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

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