Nicholas Breton and the English Self

ISBN-13: 9783631645031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 283 str.

Conny Loder

Opis

Nicholas Breton (1545/55-1626?) was one of the most prolific writers of the Early Modern period and left behind a vast uvre that is, however, largely neglected today. Breton addresses instrumental questions of his time, especially those of man s identity. This study concentrates on a selection of Breton s political texts in which Breton contrasts the Self against the Other. These texts not only stigmatise the Other as the undesired, the unknown and the indecipherable, but also construct a patriotic and uniform English identity to be imitated by all Englishmen and Englishwomen: the English Self."

Spis treści

Contents: New Historicism - Cultural Studies - Human Nature - Intellect - Political and Cultural Identity - Anti-capitalistic Tendencies - Self and Other.

O autorze

Conny Loder took a MLitt at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) and a PhD at the University of Greifswald (Germany). Her research focuses on Elizabethan and Jacobean reception of Machiavelli's works, particular on drama and pamphlets and on Shakespeare Studies. She is a member of the Renaissance Drama Research Group, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon (United Kingdom). In another life, she was on a Fulbright grant, teaching German at Pacific University, Oregon (USA).