Book · January 1, 2023
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Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consi ...
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Book · December 26, 2017
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Although it differed markedly from the style we attribute to literary authors, Armstrong and Tennenhouse argue, such democratic writing lives on in the novels of Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and James. ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
First, I shall cite one or two examples to suggest how far a Tudor monarch could go in maintaining his or her iconographic status. Ac- counts of the debate on the Act of Supremacy reveal that some members of Parliament felt that to name a woman Supreme Hea ...
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Chapter · July 1, 2016
Crucial to New Historicism was Foucault's claim that while modern power is internalised, early modern power was spectacular, an idea it employed to analyse the theatricality of power and the power of theatre in the Renaissance. This was the theme of Power ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
This essay considers the novel a network in its own right, one that brought Austen into relation with Brockden Brown, as well as Walpole, Radcliffe, Richardson, Smollett, and Fielding. Austen won the hearts of readers across two centuries, we argue, becaus ...
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Book · 2014
This collection investigates how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an alternative object of desire. ...
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Book · 2014
This collection investigates how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an alternative object of desire. ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2013
The " lawyers,�? as Axton observes, “were unable or unwilling to sepa- rate state and monarch.�?2 Elizabeth also insisted upon identifying her body with England on grounds she embodied the mystical power of the blood. Her natural body both contained and st ...
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Book · February 9, 2009
American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a m ...
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Book · 2007
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This book challenges the very notion of American Literature -- what it is and how we date it -- by daring not to assume that different national governments mean different national literatures. ...
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