Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England

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University of Chicago Press, Jun 15, 1992 - Political Science - 375 pages
What have poems and maps, law books and plays, ecclesiastical polemics and narratives of overseas exploration to do with one another? By most accounts, very little. They belong to different genres and have been appropriated by scholars in different disciplines. But, as Richard Helgerson shows in this ambitious and wide-ranging study, all were part of an extraordinary sixteenth- and seventeenth-century enterprise: the project of making England.

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Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England
Richard Helgerson
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About the author (1992)

Richard Helgerson is a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of "The Elizabethan Prodigals" and "Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System," as well as "Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England," which won the British Council Prize in the Humanities and the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association.

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TitleForms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England
AuthorRichard Helgerson
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press, 1992
ISBN0226326330, 9780226326337
Length375 pages
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Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Political Science / General
  
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