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Against all England : regional identity and Cheshire writing, 1195-1656 / Robert W. Barrett, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrett, Robert W., 1969-
- Series:
- Reformations.
- ReFormations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--England--Cheshire--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Literature and society--England--Cheshire.
- Literature and society.
- Cheshire (England)--In literature.
- Cheshire (England).
- Cheshire (England)--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 306 p. : ill., maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines poems, plays, and chronicles produced in Cheshire from the 1190s to the 1650s that collectively argue for the localization of British literary history.
- Contents:
- From cloister to corporation: imagining Chester in benedictine encomium and saint's life
- Grounds of grace: mobile meaning and processional performance in the Chester Whitsun plays
- Chester's triumph: absence and authority in seventeenth-century civic ceremonial
- Heraldic devices/chivalric divisions: Sir Gawain and the green knight and the Scrope-Grosvenor trial
- Two shires against all England: regional honor and tudor ambition in the Stanley family romances.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268075705
- 0268075700
- OCLC:
- 694145916
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