Body narratives : writing the nation and fashioning the subject in early modern England / Susanne Scholz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholz, Susanne, 1963-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Human body in literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Politics and literature.

Nationalism.

History.

Great Britain.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

England.

Nationalism--England--History--16th century.

Nationalism in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

ix, 208 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I. The Subject's New Body 13

1 Well-Tempered Bodies: Self-Government and Subjectivity 15

2 Imagined Individuals: A Body of One's Own 38

3 Gendered Objects: Sexualizing the Female Body 57

Part II. The Body of the Nation 79

4 Time, Space, and the Body in the Narrative of the Nation 81

5 Internal Imperialism: Domestic Loyalties 106

6 Astraea's Substitute: Ireland and the Quest for National Unity 127

7 Female Territories: Textualizing the Body of the Other 148.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index.

ISBN:

0312227833

OCLC:

41886046