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Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (Hardcover, New)
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Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (Hardcover, New)
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The Tudor era has long been associated with the rise of nationalism
in England, yet nationalist writing in this period often involved
the denigration and outright denial of Englishness. Philip Schwyzer
argues that the ancient, insular, and imperial nation imagined in
the works of writers such as Shakespeare and Spenser was not
England, but Britain. Disclaiming their Anglo-Saxon ancestry, the
English sought their origins in a nostalgic vision of British
antiquity. Focusing on texts including The Faerie Queene, English
and Welsh antiquarian works, The Mirror for Magistrates, Henry V
and King Lear, Schwyzer charts the genesis, development and
disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early
seventeenth centuries. An important contribution to the expanding
scholarship on early modern Britishness, this is the first study of
its kind to give detailed attention to Welsh texts and traditions,
arguing that Welsh sources crucially influenced the development of
English literature and identity.
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