Local negotiations of English nationhood, 1570-1680 [Elektronisk resurs] / John M. Adrian.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Local Consciousness in Renaissance England William Lambarde and Tudor Centralization Michael Drayton and Jacobean Court Culture George Herbert and Caroline Religious Uniformity Izaak Walton, Lucy Hutchinson, and the Experience of Civil War The Country House Poem and the Localization of Empire Conclusion Notes Index.

• Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. -- Local Negotiations explores the vitality of early modern local consciousness. Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women were still profoundly influenced by--and even drew their primary identity from--the parish, the town, and the county. This book examines how early modern writers invoke local places, traditions, and ways of thinking to respond to the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the period. The opening chapter establishes the historical basis of local identity and describes the ways in which it was transformed in the second half of the sixteenth century. Each of the succeeding five chapters then focuses on a particular author and historical moment, and explores how local habits of thought are invoked to respond to a specific national initiative (political centralization, religious uniformity, court culture, civil war, and empire). Together, these chapters illustrate both the pervasiveness of local discourse and the range of possible responses to nationhood that it engendered. 

Ämnesord

Regionalism in literature.  (LCSH)

National characteristics, English, in literature.  (LCSH)

Local history in literature.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- History and criticism -- Early modern, 1500-1700. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- History -- 17th century -- England. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- History -- 16th century -- England. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

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