Imagining England S Past

Author : Susan Owens
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500778296

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Imagining England's Past by Susan Owens Pdf

England has long built its sense of self on visions of its past. What does it mean for medieval writers to summon King Arthur from the post-Roman fog; for William Morris to resurrect the skills of the medieval workshop and Julia Margaret Cameron to portray the Arthurian court with her Victorian camera; or for Yinka Shonibare in the final years of the twentieth century to visualize a Black Victorian dandy? By exploring the imaginations of successive generations, this book reveals how diverse notions of the past have inspired literature, art, music, architecture and fashion. It shines a light on subjects from myths to mock-Tudor houses, Stonehenge to steampunk, and asks how and why the past continues so powerfully to shape the present. Not a history of England, but a history of those who have written, painted and dreamed it into being, Imagining England's Past offers a lively, erudite account of the making and manipulation of the days of old.

Author : Daniel Cattell,Philip Schwyzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000080605

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Imagining the Nation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature by Daniel Cattell,Philip Schwyzer Pdf

This volume brings together new work on the image of the nation and the construction of national identity in English literature of the seventeenth century. The chapters in the collection explore visions of British nationhood in literary works including Michael Drayton and John Selden’s Poly-Olbion and Andrew Marvell’s Horatian Ode, shedding new light on topics ranging from debates over territorial waters and the free seas, to the emergence of hyphenated identities, and the perennial problem of the Picts. Concluding with a survey of recent work in British studies and the history of early modern nationalism, this collection highlights issues of British national identity, cohesion, and disintegration that remain undeniably relevant and topical in the twenty-first century. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, The Seventeenth Century.

Author : Marissa Nicosia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198872658

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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play by Marissa Nicosia Pdf

Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays--plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when the playhouses were closed during the civil wars--in order to examine the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past. Through close readings of William Shakespeare's 1&2 Henry IV, Richard III, Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's All is True, Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me, John Ford's Perkin Warbeck, and the anonymous play pamphlets The Leveller's Levelled, 1 & 2 Craftie Cromwell, Charles I, and Cromwell's Conspiracy, the volume shows that imaginative treatments of history in plays that are usually associated with the past also had purchase on the future. While plays about the nation's past retell history, these plays are not restricted by their subject matter to merely document what happened: Playwrights projected possible futures in their accounts of verifiable historical events.

Author : Stephen Kelly,John J. Thompson
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063157211

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Imagining the Book by Stephen Kelly,John J. Thompson Pdf

Contributors discuss early printed books and manuscripts between the 14th and 16th centuries under the section headings of: 'Imagined compilers and editors', 'Imagined patrons and collectors', Imagined readings and readers' and 'Beyond the book: verbal and visual cultures'.

Author : D.K. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317039334

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The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England by D.K. Smith Pdf

Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographically-related material from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century demonstrates a new strain, not just of geographical understanding, but of cartographic manipulation, which he terms, "the cartographic imagination." Rather than considering the effects of maps themselves on early modern epistemologies, Smith considers the effects of the activity of mapping-the new techniques, the new expectations of accuracy and precision which developed in the sixteenth century-on the ways people thought and wrote. Looking at works by Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, and Marvell among other authors, he analyzes how the growing ability to represent physical space accurately brought with it not just a wealth of new maps, but a new array of rhetorical techniques, metaphors, and associations which allowed the manipulation of texts and ideas in ways never before possible.

Author : Eva Johanna Holmberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317110941

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Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination by Eva Johanna Holmberg Pdf

Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores the encounter between English travellers and the Jews. While literary and religious traditions created an image of Jews as untrustworthy, even sinister, travellers came to know them in their many and diverse communities with rich traditions and intriguing life-styles. The Jew of the imagination encountered the Jew of town and village, in southern Europe, North Africa and the Levant. Coming from an England riven by religious disputes and often by political unrest, travellers brought their own questions about identity, national character, religious belief and the quality of human relations to their encounter with 'the scattered nation'.

Author : Tatjana Silec,R. Chai-Elsholz,L. Carruthers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230118805

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Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England by Tatjana Silec,R. Chai-Elsholz,L. Carruthers Pdf

Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England.

Author : Gary Waller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317000617

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Walsingham and the English Imagination by Gary Waller Pdf

Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the cultural significance of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham, medieval England's most significant pilgrimage site devoted to the Virgin Mary, which was revived in the twentieth century, and in 2006 voted Britain's favorite religious site. Covering Walsingham's origins, destruction, and transformations from the Middle Ages to the present, Gary Waller pursues his investigation not through a standard history but by analyzing the "invented traditions" and varied re-creations of Walsingham by the "English imagination"- poems, fiction, songs, ballads, musical compositions and folk legends, solemn devotional writings and hostile satire which Walsingham has inspired, by Protestants, Catholics, and religious skeptics alike. They include, in early modern England, Erasmus, Ralegh, Sidney, and Shakespeare; then, during Walsingham's long "protestantization" from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, ballad revivals, archeological investigations, and writings by Agnes Strickland, Edmund Waterton, and Hopkins; and in the modern period, writers like Eliot, Charles Williams, Robert Lowell, and A.N. Wilson. The concluding chapter uses contemporary feminist theology to view Walsingham not just as a symbol of nostalgia but a place inviting spiritual change through its potential sexual and gender transformation.

Author : Eve Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198869160

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Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten Pdf

This book asks how English authors of the early to mid twentieth-century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work, and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and aspirations within, England itself. Drawing predominantly on novels ofthis period, but also on letters, travelogues, literary criticism, and memoir, it illustrates how Irish affairs provided a marginal but pervasive point of reference for a wide range of canonical authors in England, including Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, and EvelynWaugh, and also for many lesser-known figures such as Ethel Mannin, George Thomson, and T.H. White.The book surveys these and other incidental writers within the broad framework of literary modernism, an arc seen to run in temporal parallel to Ireland's revolutionary trajectory from rebellion to independence. In this context, it addresses two distinct aspects of the Irish-English relationship asit features in the literature of the time: first, the uneasy recognition of a fundamental similarity between the two countries in terms of their potential for violent revolutionary instability, and second, the proleptic engagement of Irish events to prefigure, imaginatively, the potential course ofEngland's evolution from the Armistice to the Second World War. Tracing these effects, this book offers a topical renegotiation of the connections between Irish and English literary culture, nationalism, and political ideology, together with a new perspective on the Irish sources engaged by Englishliterary modernism.

Author : Gail Orgelfinger
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271084251

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Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829 by Gail Orgelfinger Pdf

In this book, Gail Orgelfinger examines the ways in which English historians and illustrators depicted Joan of Arc over a period of four hundred years, from her capture in 1429 to the early nineteenth century. The variety of epithets attached to Joan of Arc—from “witch” and “Medean virago” to “missioned Maid” and “shepherd’s child”—attests to England’s complicated relationship with the saint. While portrayals of Joan in English popular culture evolved over the centuries, they do not follow a straightforward trajectory from vituperation to adulation. Focusing primarily on descriptions of Joan’s captivity, trial, and execution, this study shows how the exigencies of politics and the demands of genre shaped English retellings of her military successes, gender transgressions, and execution at the hands of her English enemies. Orgelfinger’s research illuminates how and why English writers and artists used the memory of Joan of Arc to grapple with issues such as England’s relationship with France, emerging protofeminism in the early modern era, and the sense of national guilt over her execution. A systematic analysis of Joan’s English historiography in its political and social contexts, this volume sheds light on four centuries of English thought on Joan of Arc. It will be welcomed by specialist and general readers alike, especially those interested in women’s studies.

Author : M. Matei-Chesnoiu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137029331

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Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama by M. Matei-Chesnoiu Pdf

Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others.

Author : Leigh Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055290233

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Imagination and Fancy : Or, Selections from the English Poets by Leigh Hunt Pdf

Author : Deanna Smid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004344044

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The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature by Deanna Smid Pdf

Deanna Smid presents a literary, historical account of imagination in early modern English literature, particularly imagination’s effects on the body and on women, its restraint by reason, and its ability to create novelty.

Author : Claude J. Summers,Ted-Larry Pebworth
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826261694

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The English Civil Wars in the Literary Imagination by Claude J. Summers,Ted-Larry Pebworth Pdf

Author : Emily Houlik-Ritchey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472903559

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Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance by Emily Houlik-Ritchey Pdf

Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance offers a broad disciplinary, linguistic, and national focus by analyzing the literary depiction of Iberia in two European vernaculars that have rarely been studied together. Emily Houlik-Ritchey employs an innovative comparative methodology that integrates the understudied Castilian literary tradition with English literature. Intentionally departing from the standard “influence and transmission” approach, Imagining Iberia challenges that standard discourse with modes drawn from Neighbor Theory to reveal and navigate the relationships among three selected medieval romance traditions. This welcome volume uncovers an overemphasis in prior scholarship on the relevance of “crusading” agendas in medieval romance, and highlights the shared investments of Christians and Muslims in Iberia’s political, creedal, cultural, and mercantile networks in the Mediterranean world.