Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Scholz, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312227833 ISBN-13: 9780312227838 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: "Body Narratives" deals with changing body configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh, and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion, and gender difference. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Modern - General |
Dewey: 820.935 |
LCCN: 99033529 |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.71" W x 8.86" (1.01 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Publisher Description: Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion and gender difference. |