Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions

Herausgeber: Cousins, A D; Payne, Geoffrey

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Produktbeschreibung

In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for 'home' or struggling to establish the 'nation'. These were also important preoccupations between the English and the French revolutions: a period when Britain was first at war within itself, then achieved a confident if precarious equilibrium, and finally seemed to have come once more to the edge of overthrow. In the century and a half between revolution experienced and revolution observed, the impulse to identify or implicitly appropriate home and nation was elemental to British literature. This wide-ranging study by international scholars provides an innovative and thorough account of writings that vigorously contested notions and images of the nation and of private domestic space within it, tracing the larger patterns of debate, while at the same time exploring how particular writers situated themselves within it and gave it shape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781107064409
• ISBN-10: 1107064406
• Artikelnr.: 42965420

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction A. D. Cousins and Geoffrey Payne; Part I. The English
Revolution and the Interregnum: 2. Nation, nature, and poetics: transitions
and claspes in Denham's 'Cooper's Hill' and Cavendish's Poems and Fancies
L. E. Semler; 3. Home and nation in Andrew Marvell's Bermudas A. D.
Cousins; 4. Anne Clifford and Samuel Pepys: diaries and homes Helen Wilcox;
5. Home and away in the poetry of Andrew Marvell and some of his influences
and contemporaries Nigel Smith; Part II. Restoration, Glorious Revolution,
and Hanoverian Succession: 6. 'Home to our People': nation and kingship in
late seventeenth-century political verse Abigail Williams; 7. 'Yet Israel
still serves': home and nation in Milton's Samson Agonistes William Walker;
8. 'A thing remote': Defoe and the home in the metropolis and New World
Geoffrey Payne; 9. Pope's homes: London, Windsor Forest, and Twickenham Pat
Rogers; 10. Samuel Johnson and London Evan Gottlieb; 11. Contesting 'home'
in eighteenth-century women's verse Catherine Ingrassia; 12. Home, homeland
and the Gothic David Punter; Part III. Revolution in France, Reaction in
Britain: 13. Contesting the homeland: Burke and Wollstonecraft Daniel I.
O'Neill; 14. Homelands: Blake, Albion, and the French Revolution David
Fallon; 15. Jane Austen and the modern home Gary Kelly; 16. 'All things
have a home but one': exile and aspiration, pastoral and political in
Shelley's The Mask of Anarchy and Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'To
Autumn' Geoffrey Payne; 17. Sir Walter Scott: home, nation, and the denial
of revolution Dani Napton; Guide to further reading.