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Against All England – Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195–1656 de Robert W. Barrett Jr.

Against All England – Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195–1656: ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern

Autor Robert W. Barrett Jr.
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2009
Against All Englandexamines a diverse set of poems, plays, and chronicles produced in Cheshire and its vicinity from the 1190s to the 1650s that collectively argue for the localization of British literary history. These works, including very early monastic writing emanating from St. Werburgh’s Abbey, the Chester Whitsun plays, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, seventeenth-century ceremonials, and various Stanley romances, share in the creation and revision of England’s cultural tradition, demonstrating a vested interest in the intersection of landscape, language, and politics. Barrett’s book grounds itself in Cestrian evidence in order to offer scholars a new, dynamic model of cultural topography, one that acknowledges the complex interlacing of regional and national identities within the longue durée extending from the post-Conquest period to the Restoration.
Covering nearly five centuries of literary production within a single geographical location, the book challenges still dominant chronologies of literary history that emphasize cultural rupture and view the “Renaissance” as a sharp break from England’s medieval past.
 
“Robert W. Barrett, Jr., makes a number of contributions to our understanding of medieval and early modern English culture. He joins other scholars like David Wallace, James Simpson, and Sarah Beckwith in seeking to understand medieval culture less as a distinct unit than as a series of texts, issues, and rhetorical moves that continue well into the early modern period and, indeed, nourish it. . . . Barrett’s study is timely and will be received with great interest.” —Lynn Staley, Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of the Humanities and Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Colgate University
 
“Rob Barrett’s study of pre- and early modern Cheshire makes a welcome contribution to the literary and historical rethinking of the medieval/Renaissance divide. Against All England presents a compelling argument for the crucial place of regional cultures in the increasingly prominent scholarly narrative of an emergent English nation. This lively and learned book deserves a broad readership across disciplinary and historical borders.” —Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland
 
“No matter how well one knows such works as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or the Chester Whitsun plays, Barrett's Against All England will offer intellectually rewarding surprises. It exemplifies how asking new questions leads to new insights, in this case questions framed by regional rather than traditional generic, period, linguistic, or religious categories. Embedded in an impressively thick description of local knowledges, Barrett's analyses of the longue durée of Cheshire writing through five centuries serve as salutary reminders that an imagined community need not be national and that provincial cities and their regions may develop a unique literary heritage too often masked by canonical emphases on London and the nation in even the most theoretically savvy literary histories.” —Richard K. Emmerson, Florida State University
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780268022099
ISBN-10: 0268022097
Pagini: 326
Ilustrații: 7 halftones
Dimensiuni: 154 x 238 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: MR – University of Notre Dame Press
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Recenzii

“Barrett’s conclusion is a tour de force which reinforces many of the arguments of the book through an examination of present day Chester ceremonial . . . this remains an important book which should be read by all those concerned with place and space, identity, urban literature and the fundamental narratives by which we understand literary history.” —Review of English Studies 

“Offering a rich survey of Cheshire culture in a literary-historical analysis that transcends medieval-modern boundaries, Robert W. Barrett, Jr.’s Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656 provides a crucial intervention in recent conversations about medieval nationhood. Barrett’s Against All Englandpowerfully presents the continuity of such regional discourse, even as his richly sourced study explores the varying medieval and early modern cultural and historical pressures negotiated by Cheshire writing.” —Journal of English and Germanic Philosophy

“Robert Barrett Jr. presents a spirited challenge to persistent chronological and national/regional boundaries in England, in particular those based on London’s literary production. Throughout the book, Barrett deftly shifts between literary and historical analysis, as for him local identity ‘has a material basis in distinct institutions and practices. . . . Barrett makes the most of the sources, working in gender, architectural, and other analyses to provide a crisp, detailed picture of the region and its identities.” —Sixteenth Century Journal

“. . . a thorough historical study arguing for the importance of regional identities in dialogue with the national one. The book lives, however, not in that claim but in its many absorbing details. It is also interesting for what it adds to our knowledge of a great work of English literature outside our period, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” —Studies in English Literature 1500 – 1900

Notă biografică

Robert W. Barrett, Jr., is associate professor of English and medieval studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign