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The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (Paperback, New ed)
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The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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The Poetics of English Nationhood is a study of the formation of
English national identity during the early modern period. Claire
McEachern argues for the role of Reformation religious culture in
the shaping of a Tudor-Stuart nation, and examines its presence in
the writings of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Drayton. She shows how in
their work the concept of nationality is always fluid; it crucially
depends on a sense of intimacy that seeps across and above
hierarchies and boundaries. McEachern shows how different kinds of
language - literary, exegetical, parliamentary - personify power,
thereby sealing the intimacy which binds the nation as an imagined
community. The representation of faith, motherland, and crown in
Tudor-Stuart texts, she argues, continually personified English
political institutions, promoting both social order and collective
unity. By focusing on the rhetorical forms of cultural unity in the
Reformation era, McEachern traces a profound shift from a
monarchically defined Englishness to a system based within the
cultural institution of the common law.
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