Adrian, John M.. Local negotiations of English nationhood, 1570-1680

Folger bibliographic ID: 245966
Folger call number: PR767 .A37 2011
Folger holdings ID: 312774

"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"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Local Consciousness in Renaissance England -- William Lambarde and Tudor Centralization -- Michael Drayton and Jacobean Court Culture -- George Herbert and Caroline Religious Uniformity -- Izaak Walton, Lucy Hutchinson, and the Experience of Civil War -- The Country House Poem and the Localization of Empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Extended title: Local negotiations of English nationhood, 1570-1680 / John M. Adrian

English prose literature Regionalism in literature Local history in literature National characteristics, English, in literature Literature and society LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century LITERARY CRITICISM / General Nationale kenmerken Identiteit Bellettrie Engels Engeland

author: Adrian, John M., 1975-