Fashioning England and the English Literature, Nation, Gender /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Orgis, Rahel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Heim, Matthias (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: British literature.; Literature-History and criticism.; Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern.; British and Irish Literature.; Literary History.; Literary Theory.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.

This book explores how literary texts envision England and respond to discourses and conceptions of Englishness and the English nation, especially in relation to gender and language. The essays discuss texts from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and bear witness to changing views of England an...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Rahel Orgis and Matthias Heim
• 2. Engendering a sense of Englishness: The Use of the Mother Tongue in Osbern Bokenham's "Vita Sanctae Margaretae": Katrin Rupp
• 3. Tricking Sir George into Marriage: The Utopian Moral Reform of the English Commonwealth in Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury: Rahel Orgis
• 4. Shakespeare's Style, Shakespeare's England: Hugh Craig
• 5. Gendering the Archipelago: Nation, State and Empire in the Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies: Christopher Ivic and Willy Maley
• 6. By Deeds of Stealth: English Books Abroad in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Allen Reddick
• 7. Sons of Nature: The Bourgeois Pursuit of Happiness in the Swiss Alps and Wordsworth's Lake District: Patrick Vincent
• 8. Wordsworth UnEnglished: Rachel Falconer
• 9. "To be a true citizen of Highbury": Language and National Identity in Jane Austen's Emma (1816): Anne-Claire Michoux
• 10. Renegotiating Home and Away in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out: Suzana Zink
• 11. English Visions: The Work of Jacquetta Hawkes Priestly: Ina Habermann
• 12. Olivier's Technicolor England: Capturing the Nation through the Battlefields of Henry V (1944) and Richard III (1955).