Alien Albion : literature and immigration in early modern England / Scott Oldenburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oldenburg, Scott, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Foreign authors--History and criticism.

England--Ethnic relations--History--16th century.

England.

England--Emigration and immigration--History--16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alien Albion challenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class, and local identities in the early modern era.

Contents:

Introduction: forms of multiculturalims in early modern England

From the Dutch acrobat to Hance Beerport: multicultural mid-Tudor England

The rhetoric of religious refuge under Elizabeth I

Artisanal tolerance: the case of Thomas Deloney

Language and labour in Thomas Dekker's provincial globalism

The "jumbled" city: The Dutch Courtesan and Englishmen for My Money

Shakespeare, the foreigner

Conclusion: the return of Hans Beer-pot.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 15, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4426-6750-8

1-4426-6749-4

OCLC:

898085904