Title: Sixteenth-century identities /
Authors: Piesse, A. J.
Publisher: Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
Year: 2001
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Nationalism and literature Great Britain History; Identity (Psychology) Great Britain History; National characteristics, English History; Subjectivity in literature.; Renaissance England; Self in literature.; England Civilization
Abstract: "This collection of essays by established scholars takes a number of different perspectives on the sixteenth century. How do shifts in definition, across a number of disciplines, facilitate or stall the articulation of the self-regarding subject? Do representations of geographical space, religious practice, and literary genre support the argument for the emergence of early modern subjects? Or do they rather reveal alternative agendas in sixteenth-century thinking? Each of these essays provides an account of its material, provoking fresh investigation and problematisation of the period immediatley before the high Renaissance in England."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction -- Finding identity in the Middle Ages -- English place-names in the sixteenth century: the search for identity -- John Leland's Itinerary and the identity of England -- New English ideology in Ireland and the two Sir William Heberts -- Sackville tragicus: a case of poetic identity -- 'Strange ceremonies': sacred space and bodily presence in the English Reformation -- 'The birth day of my selfe': John Donne, Martha Moulsworth and the emergence of individual identity.