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The making of Englishmen : debates on national identity 1550-1650 / by Hilary Larkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larkin, Hilary.
- Series:
- Studies in the history of political thought ; volume 8.
- Studies in the history of political thought ; volume 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, English--History--16th century.
- National characteristics, English.
- National characteristics, English--History--17th century.
- Group identity--England--History--16th century.
- Group identity.
- Group identity--England--History--17th century.
- Nationalism and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Nationalism and literature.
- Nationalism and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- English language--Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- English language.
- English language--Rhetoric.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- x, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
- Summary:
- The Making of Englishmen: Debates on Nationl Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It seeks to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be construed as free, plain and unCatholic, and situate this construction as part of a larger attempt to create a narrative which would distinguish them from the rest of Europe. But all such attempts were fraught with anxiety and contestation. The normative ideals of Englishness were constantly being undermined, affronted and ignored. In the disarray of the post-Reformation era, there were constant fears that the Englishman was becoming both slavish and treacherous in political, cultural and religious ways. Englishness was under threat. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Plain Englishman
- 1 The Rise of an Ethos of Plainness 25
- 2 The Plain-Speaking Englishman 33
- A Language in Flux 33
- The Cult of Homespun Speech 34
- Politicisation of the Plain Englishman 43
- The Speech of Returned Travellers 47
- The Courtier's Velvet Terms 57
- Discoursing Gestures 67
- 3 The Image of the Englishman 79
- The Politics of Appearance 79
- A Golden Age of Native Dress 80
- The Materials of Identity 92
- A World of Fashions 98
- Dressing the Head 117
- Part 2 The Loyal Englishman
- 4 The Development of an anti-Catholic Narrative 125
- 5 The Estrangement of English Catholics 131
- Constructing a Plain, Protestant and un-French Utopia 131
- The Alienation of the Jesuits 143
- The Ideological Battle Against Spanishness 148
- Debating National Authenticity 151
- 6 The Fabrication of a Jesuited Mock Weal 167
- Catholic Reassertions of Englishness 167
- Staging Englishness and Jesuitism 187
- Machiavels and Mercuries in the Caroline Era 195
- The Triumph of a Stereotype 202
- Part 3 The Free Englishman
- 7 The Growth of a Rhetoric of Liberty 209
- 8 The Rights-Bearing Englishman 213
- Early Statements in Parliament 213
- The 1628 Synthesis of Rights 218
- Liberties as Popular Polemic 227
- The New Enemies of Liberty 234
- Revolutionary Implications 238
- 9 The Neo-Classical Englishman 253
- The Roman Tradition 253
- The Spectre of National Decline 257
- The Brink of Degeneration 262
- The Classical Republican Turn 273
- The 'Fate' of English Liberty 287.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-335) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 900423473X
- 9789004234734
- OCLC:
- 855264288
- Publisher Number:
- 99956588168
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