Premodern Places
Subtitle: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: May 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781405151528
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Renaissance; History: World; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Medieval; ENGLISH LITERATURE_FOREIGN INFLUENCES; ENGLISH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_EARLY MODERN, 1500-1700; ENGLISH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1100-1500; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History - General History; Early modern, 1500-1700; English literature; Foreign influences; History and criticism; Middle English, 1100-1500
First sentence: In 1749, William Hogarth painted "The Gate of Calais, or O the Roastbeef of Old England" (figure 1).