Home and nation in British literature from the English to the French revolutions / edited by A. D. Cousins and Geoffrey Payne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cousins, A. D., 1950- editor.

Payne, Geoff, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British literature--17th century--History and criticism.

British literature.

British literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Home in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

National characteristics, British, in literature.

Nationalism and literature--Great Britain--History.

Nationalism and literature.

History.

Great Britain--In literature.

Great Britain.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction / A.D. Cousins and Geoffrey Payne

Part I. The English Revolution and the Interregnum: 2. Nation, nature and poetics in Denham's 'Cooper's Hil' and Cavendish's 'Hunting' and 'Island' 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107064409

1107064406

OCLC:

910530359

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