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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.
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'Willey Maley's important book on 'the British problem' in relation to English Renaissance literature is a welcome contribution to the fields of Renaissance and colonial studies...the book brings those essays together beautifully, enabling us to hold in hand, and to teach, a series of strongly linked and very significant pieces...[his] view of Macmorris is fascinating and at odds with the conventional criticism surrounding that character.' - The Spenser Review
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About the author
WILLY MALEY is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. His many publications include two previous books with Palgrave Macmillan: A Spenser Chronology (1994), and Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (1997). He is also co-editor of Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534 - 1660 (1993), Edmund Spenser: A View of the Present State of Ireland: From the First Published Edition (1997), Postcolonial Criticism (1997), and British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (2002).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature
Book Subtitle: Shakespeare to Milton
Authors: Willy Maley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403990471
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-64077-7Published: 26 November 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-39532-3Published: 01 January 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-9047-1Published: 30 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 185
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature