Nation, State, And Empire In English Renaissance Literature

Nine essays reprinted from scholarly anthologies and journals in the 1990s express Maley's (Renaissance studies, U. of Glasgow) perception that the canonical English writers he examines were actively constructing and deconstructing the origin myths of Britain, and blurring as well as bolstering its boundaries. Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, Ford, and Milton forged a new English culture that he says is threatened by the enlarged polity they used to create it. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR