Adrian, John M <br/><br/>
Local negotiations of English nationhood, 1570-1680  text 
John M. Adrian 
 - Basingstoke  Palgrave Macmillan  2011 
 - 238p.                                                      Hbk 
 - Early modern literature in history .
<br/><br/> <p>Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-225) and index.</p> 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780230277717  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011004878 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English prose literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism<br/>Regionalism in literature<br/>Local history in literature<br/>Literature and society - England - History - 17th century<br/>Literature and society - England - History - 16th century<br/>National characteristics, English, in literature
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>820.9 ADR