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Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions
A. Cousins
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Description for Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions
hardcover. A wide-ranging account of the contested intersection between ideas of nationhood and home in British literature between 1640 and 1830. Editor(s): Cousins, A. D.; Payne, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; HBW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for 'home' or struggling to establish the 'nation'. These were also important preoccupations between the English and the French revolutions: a period when Britain was first at war within itself, then achieved a confident if precarious equilibrium, and finally seemed to have come once more to the edge of overthrow. In the century and a half between revolution experienced and revolution observed, the impulse to identify or implicitly appropriate home and nation was elemental to British literature. This wide-ranging study by international scholars ... Read more
In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for 'home' or struggling to establish the 'nation'. These were also important preoccupations between the English and the French revolutions: a period when Britain was first at war within itself, then achieved a confident if precarious equilibrium, and finally seemed to have come once more to the edge of overthrow. In the century and a half between revolution experienced and revolution observed, the impulse to identify or implicitly appropriate home and nation was elemental to British literature. This wide-ranging study by international scholars ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107064409
SKU
V9781107064409
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99-18
About A. Cousins
A. D. Cousins is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Member of the Order of Australia. He has published thirteen books in America and England, including monographs on Thomas More, Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, and religious verse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is on the Editorial Board of Moreana, the international journal of More ... Read more
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