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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787003403321

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

1-4426-6750-8

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

England Ethnic relations History 16th century

England Emigration and immigration History 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.