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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460346103321

Autore

Oldenburg Scott

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-6749-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

820.9920693

Soggetti

English literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

English literature - Foreign authors - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Forms of Multiculturalism in Early Modern England -- Chapter One. From the Dutch Acrobat to Hance Beerpot: Multicultural Mid-Tudor England -- Chapter Two. The Rhetoric of Religious Refuge under Elizabeth I -- Chapter Three. Artisanal Tolerance: The Case of Thomas Deloney -- Chapter Four. Language and Labour in Thomas Dekker’s Provincial Globalism -- Chapter Five. The “Jumbled” City: The Dutch Courtesan and Englishmen for My Money -- Chapter Six. Shakespeare, the Foreigner -- Conclusion: The Return of Hans Beer-Pot -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Oldenburg uncovers how immigrants to England forged ties with their English hosts and how those relationships were reflected in literature that imagined inclusive, multicultural communities.Through discussions of civic pageantry, the plays of dramatists including William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Middleton, the poetry of Anne Dowriche, and the prose of Thomas Deloney, 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.