British Identities and English Renaissance Literature - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521189683 ISBN 13: 9780521189682

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Though British history and identity in the early modern period are intensively researched areas, the role of literature in the construction of "Britishness" has not been thoroughly studied. In this volume, leading Renaissance literary critics review a broad range of texts from the period, including plays of Shakespeare, in view of the new British history. This collection opens up a new kind of literary history with immediate relevance to contemporary discussions of "Britishness."

About this title

Book Description:

Though British history and identity in the early modern period are intensively researched areas, to date, the role of literature in the construction of 'Britishness' is under-examined. In this volume, leading Renaissance literary critics read a broad range of texts from the period, including plays of Shakespeare, in light of the new British history. This collection opens up a new kind of literary history and has pressing relevance for discussions of 'Britishness' today.

About the Author:

David Baker is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the author of Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain (1997). His articles have appeared in Spenser Studies, English Renaissance Literature and Critical Inquiry. Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict (Cambridge, 1993), A Spenser Chronology (1994), Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (1997), Post-Colonial Criticism (1997) and Nation, State, and Empire in the English Renaissance: Colonising Culture (2002). He also co-edited an edition of Edmund Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland (1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521189683
• ISBN 13: 9780521189682
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Baker David J., Maley Willy