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The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Hardcover, New)
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The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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What was the impact of the Norman Conquest on the culture of
medieval and early modern England? Deanne Williams answers this
question by contending that not only French language and
literature, but the idea of Frenchness itself, produced England's
literary and cultural identity. Examining a variety of English
representations of, and responses to, France and 'the French' in
the work of Chaucer, Caxton, Skelton, Shakespeare and others, this
book shows how English literature emerged out of a simultaneous
engagement with, and resistance to, the pervasive presence of
French language and culture in England that was the legacy of the
Norman Conquest. Drawing upon current theories of gender and
postcoloniality, this book revises traditional notions of English
literary history by inserting France as a primary element in
English self-fashioning, from Chaucer's Prioress to Shakespeare's
Henry V.
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