Against all England
Subtitle: regional identity and Cheshire writing, 1195-1656
By: Robert W. Barrett, Jr.
Series: ReFormations: medieval and early modern
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780268022099
Subjects: English literature -- England -- Cheshire -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- England -- Cheshire; Cheshire (England) -- In literature; Cheshire (England) -- Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From cloister to corporation: imagining Chester in benedictine encomium and saint's life; title: Grounds of grace: mobile meaning and processional performance in the Chester Whitsun plays; title: Chester's triumph: absence and authority in seventeenth-century civic ceremonial; title: Heraldic devices/chivalric divisions: Sir Gawain and the green knight and the Scrope-Grosvenor trial; title: Two shires against all England: regional honor and tudor ambition in the Stanley family romances.