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Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England
S. Scholz
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Description for Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England
Hardcover. This text deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of 16th-century England. It looks at works of courtly writers like Ralegh, Spenser, and Sidney, examining their ideas on the human body, politics, gender, and national identity. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, index, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300. Keywords: "Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - Literary Studies - 16th to 18th Centuries,Subjects - Society, Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences - Cultural Studies,Education Resource"
Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion and gender difference.
Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion and gender difference.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333761021
SKU
KHS0051744
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About S. Scholz
Susanne Scholz is Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Paderborn University in Germany.
Reviews for Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England
"This is a useful book in its ability to bring recent scholarship, theory, and familiar texts together...." - Elizabeth D. Harvey, Renaissance Quarterly This is a smart book with much to offer... Journal of Interdisciplinary History