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Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and
Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the
union of Wales with England in 1536 to the beginnings of its
industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century. The
collection offers a timely contribution to the current
devolutionary energies that are transforming the study of British
literatures today, and it builds on recent work on Wales in
Renaissance, eighteenth-century, and Romantic literary studies.
What is unique about Writing Wales is that it cuts across these
period divisions to enable readers for the first time to chart the
development of literary treatments of Wales across three of the
most tumultuous centuries in the history of British
state-formation. Writing Wales explores how these period divisions
have helped shape scholarly treatments of Wales, and it asks if we
should continue to reinforce such period divisions, or else
reconfigure our approach to Wales' literary past. The essays
collected here reflect the full 300-year time span of the volume
and explore writers canonical and non-canonical alike: George
Peele, Michael Drayton, Henry Vaughan, Katherine Philips, and John
Dyer here feature alongside other lesser-known authors. The
collection showcases the wide variety of literary representations
of Wales, and it explores relationships between the perception of
Wales in literature and the realities of its role on the British
political stage.
Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and
Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the
union of Wales with England in 1536 to the beginnings of its
industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century. The
collection offers a timely contribution to the current
devolutionary energies that are transforming the study of British
literatures today, and it builds on recent work on Wales in
Renaissance, eighteenth-century, and Romantic literary studies.
What is unique about Writing Wales is that it cuts across these
period divisions to enable readers for the first time to chart the
development of literary treatments of Wales across three of the
most tumultuous centuries in the history of British
state-formation. Writing Wales explores how these period divisions
have helped shape scholarly treatments of Wales, and it asks if we
should continue to reinforce such period divisions, or else
reconfigure our approach to Wales' literary past. The essays
collected here reflect the full 300-year time span of the volume
and explore writers canonical and non-canonical alike: George
Peele, Michael Drayton, Henry Vaughan, Katherine Philips, and John
Dyer here feature alongside other lesser-known authors. The
collection showcases the wide variety of literary representations
of Wales, and it explores relationships between the perception of
Wales in literature and the realities of its role on the British
political stage.
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Arthurian Literature XXV (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Carolyne Larrington, Martine Meuwese, Michael W Twomey, …
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The most recent research in matters Arthurian, by leading scholars
in the field. The essays in this volume represent a wide range of
Arthurian subjects, reaching as far back as the sixth century, and
as far forward as the nineteenth; they include studies of Arthur as
an icon of an independent England in the reign of Henry VIII, the
source of Geoffrey of Monmouth's knowledge of Merlin, Malory's
Morte Darthur, and the works of Chretien - both in literature and
in depictions of scenes from his romances in ivory caskets from the
Middle Ages and beyond. Of special interest is the appearance for
the first time in print of a newly discovered Arthurian text: a
letter in Anglo-Norman French purportedly written by Morgan le Fay.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English, University of Durham;
DAVID F. JOHNSON is Professor of English, Florida State University.
CONTRIBUTORS: CAROLYNE LARRINGTON, MARTINE MEUWESE, STEWART
MOTTRAM, RALUCA RADULESCU, NICOLAI TOLSTOY, MICHAEL TWOMEY
Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell explores
writerly responses to the religious violence of the long
reformation in England and Wales, spanning over a century of
literature and history, from the establishment of the national
church under Henry VIII (1534), to its disestablishment under
Oliver Cromwell (1653). It focuses on representations of ruined
churches, monasteries, and cathedrals in the works of a range of
English Protestant writers, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson,
Herbert, Denham, and Marvell, reading literature alongside episodes
in English reformation history: from the dissolution of the
monasteries and the destruction of church icons and images, to the
puritan reforms of the 1640s. The study departs from previous
responses to literature's 'bare ruined choirs', which tend to read
writerly ambivalence towards the dissolution of the monasteries as
evidence of traditionalist, catholic, or Laudian nostalgia for the
pre-reformation church. Instead, Ruin and Reformation shows how
English protestants of all varieties-from Laudians to
Presbyterians-could, and did, feel ambivalence towards, and anxiety
about, the violence that accompanied the dissolution of the
monasteries and other acts of protestant reform. The study
therefore demonstrates that writerly misgivings about ruin and
reformation need not necessarily signal an author's opposition to
England's reformation project. In so doing, Ruin and Reformation
makes an important contribution to cross-disciplinary debates about
the character of English Protestantism in its formative century,
revealing that doubts about religious destruction were as much a
part of the experience of English protestantism as expressions of
popular support for iconoclasm in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries.
Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the
perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century. The complex
topics of colonialism, empire and nation run throughout English
Renaissance literature. Here, the author moves beyond recent work
on England's "British" colonial interests, arguing for England's
self-image in the sixteenth century as an "empire of itself", part
of a culture which deliberately set itself apart from Britain and
Europe. In the first section of the book he explores England's
self-image as empire in the Arthurian and classical pageants of two
Tudor royal entries into the City of London: Charles V's in 1522
and Anne Boleyn's in 1533. Part Two focuses on the culture of
English Bible-reading and its influence on England's imperial
self-image in the Tudor period. He offers fresh new readings of
texts by Richard Morison, William Tyndale, John Bale, Nicholas
Udall, and William Lightfoot, among other authors represented. Dr
STEWART MOTTRAM is Research Lecturer, Institute for Medieval and
Early Modern Studies, Aberystwyth University.
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