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Giving sustained consideration to the trope of the bastard in literature, this study interrogates the conceptual links between illegitimacy and national identit
Writing the Early Modern English Nation
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While there is overwhelming evidence that nationalism reached its peak in the later nineteenth century, views about when precisely national thinking and sentime
Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England
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This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more
The Discourse of Exile in Early Modern English Literature
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This volume examines the literary works of English exiles seeking to navigate what Edward Said calls "the perilous territory of not-belonging." The study opens
Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle
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This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of Shakespeare's