Sixteenth-century identities
By: edited by A.J. Piesse.
Contributors: Piesse, A. J.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Identity (Psychology) -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; National characteristics, English -- History -- 16th century.; Subjectivity in literature.; Renaissance -- England.; Self in literature.; England -- Civilization -- 16th century.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.