Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton - Hardback

This book, original in emphasis, daring in execution, maps out the shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colonial identities through the work of major canonical authors including Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton. Informed throughout by the burgeoning fields of the new British history and postcolonial criticism, this volume marks a dramatic shift in studies of the early modern period, from Irish to British concerns, thus accounting for the interplay of union, plantation, and conquest.

• | Author: Willy Maley
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Nov 26, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 185 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0333640772
• | ISBN-13: 9780333640777