Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680 [electronic resource] /
Adrian, John M.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Local Consciousness in Renaissance England; 2 William Lambarde and Tudor Centralization; 3 Michael Drayton and Jacobean Court Culture; 4 George Herbert and Caroline Religious Uniformity; 5 Izaak Walton, Lucy Hutchinson, and the Experience of Civil War; 6 The Country House Poem and the Localization of Empire; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and 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.
Literature, Modern.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
Great Britain—History.
Europe—History—1492-.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Early Modern Europe.