Archipelagic English : literature, history, and politics, 1603-1707

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Label

Archipelagic English : literature, history, and politics, 1603-1707

Title remainder

literature, history, and politics, 1603-1707

Statement of responsibility

John Kerrigan

Creator

• Kerrigan, John

Subject

• English literature -- Irish authors | History and criticism
• English literature -- Scottish authors | History and criticism
• English literature -- Welsh authors | History and criticism
• Ethnic relations in literature
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• Nationalism in literature
• Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Scotland -- In literature
• Wales -- In literature
• Ireland -- In literature

Language

eng

Summary

"This book transforms our understanding of canonical texts from Macbeth to Defoe's Colonel Jack, but it also shows the significance of a whole series of authors (from William Drummond in Scotland to the Earl of Orrery in County Cork) who were prominent during their lifetimes but who have since become neglected because they do not fit the Anglocentric paradigm. With its European and imperial dimensions, and its close attention to the cultural make-up of early modern Britain and Ireland, Archipelagic English authoritatively engages with, questions, and develops the claim now made by historians that the crises of the seventeenth-century stem from the instabilities of a state-system which, between 1603 and 1707, was multiple, mixed, and inclined to let local quarrels spiral into all-consuming conflict." "This is a major, interdisciplinary contribution to literary and historical scholarship which is also set to influence present-day arguments about devolution, unionism, and nationalism in Britain and Ireland."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

UKM

Dewey number

820.90040941

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PR438.P65

LC item number

K47 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography