Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 [NOOK Book]

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Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such English authors as Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell were with the often fraught interactions between ethnic, religious, and national groups around the British-Irish archipelago. This book transforms ourunderstanding of canonical texts from Macbeth to...
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Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707

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Overview

Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such English authors as Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell were with the often fraught interactions between ethnic, religious, and national groups around the British-Irish archipelago. This book transforms ourunderstanding 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 theAnglocentric 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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780191615566
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • Publication date: 2/7/2008
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 19 MB
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John Kerrigan was born and brought up in Liverpool, educated at Oxford, and now teaches at Cambridge. He has published extensively on early modern literature, especially Shakespeare, on Romantic poetry, and on contemporary writing. His edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (1986, often reprinted) was widely acclaimed, and his study of Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1996) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. In addition to editions and monographs, he has written numerous articles for the (London) Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books, and poetry reviews for 'little' magazines. Internationally prominent, he has lectured throughout Britain, Ireland, Europe and North America.

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Table of Contents

Preface List of illustrations
1. Introduction
2. Archipelagic Macbeth
3. The Romans in Britain: Wales and Jacobean Drama
4. William Drummond and the British Problem
5. Religion and the Drama of Caroline Ireland
6. God in Wales: Morgan Llwyd, Henry Vaughan, Katherine Philips
7. The Archipelago Enlarged: Milton and Marvell to 1660
8. Orrery's Ireland
9. Our Scotland: Marvell, Mackenzie, Cleland
10. The Derry School of Drama
11. Defoe, Scotland, and Union
12. Epilogue: 1707 and All That Primary Sources

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