English fictions of communal identity, 1485-1603 / Joshua Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Joshua.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English fiction.

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

Group identity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on Tudor prose fiction from Malory's Morte D'Arthur through the works of Sir Philip Sidney and Thomas Nashe, this study explores the concept of ""collective agency"" and the extensive impact it had on English Renaissance culture. Ultimately, author Joshua Phillips challenges standard accounts of literary history and periodization to offer a new way of theorizing the relation between collaboration and identity.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Violence of Singularity; Part I: Belonging and Belongings; 1 The Caxtonian Imaginary: Knights and the Dreams of the Abbey-Lubbers; 2 Staking Claims to Utopia: Thomas More, Prose Fiction, and the Matter of Belonging; Part II: Knowing Together, Laboring Together; 3 William Baldwin and Communities of Fiction; 4 Anthony Munday, Romance, and the Production of Collective Selves; Part III: Broken Music: Re-imagining Collective Subjectivity; 5 Hoc Opus, Hic Labor Est: Sir Philip Sidney and the Work of Shame

6 Thomas Nashe, Thy Unworthy Speaker to the WorldConclusion: A Piece of the Main; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612454301

9781315579740

131557974X

9781317143116

1317143116

9781317143109

1317143108

9781282454309

1282454307

9780754697848

0754697843

OCLC:

609853063