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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781057703321

Autore

Phillips Joshua

Titolo

English fictions of communal identity, 1485-1603 [[electronic resource] /] / Joshua Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010

ISBN

1-315-57974-X

1-317-14311-6

1-317-14310-8

1-282-45430-7

9786612454301

0-7546-9784-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

823.209

823.3093552

823/.2/09

Soggetti

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

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

Group identity in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.