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Forms of nationhood : the Elizabethan writing of England

Richard Helgerson (Author)
"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"--Publisher description
Print Book, English, 1992
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226326337, 9780226326344, 0226326330, 0226326349
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Introduction: The kingdom of our own language
Two versions of Gothic
Writing the law
The land speaks
The voyages of a nation
Staging exclusion
Apocalyptics and apologetics
Afterword: Engendering the nation-state