03259nam 2200721Ia 450 991078105770332120230120075649.01-315-57974-X1-317-14311-61-317-14310-81-282-45430-797866124543010-7546-9784-3(CKB)2550000000005718(EBL)476409(OCoLC)609853063(SSID)ssj0000359410(PQKBManifestationID)12088161(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000359410(PQKBWorkID)10316895(PQKB)10496654(Au-PeEL)EBL476409(CaPaEBR)ebr10362154(CaONFJC)MIL922644(Au-PeEL)EBL5293609(CaONFJC)MIL245430(OCoLC)647855472(MiAaPQ)EBC476409(MiAaPQ)EBC5293609(PPN)158030214(EXLCZ)99255000000000571820090515d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnglish fictions of communal identity, 1485-1603[electronic resource] /Joshua PhillipsBurlington, VT Ashgate20101 online resource (269 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-6598-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Shame6 Thomas Nashe, Thy Unworthy Speaker to the WorldConclusion: A Piece of the Main; Bibliography; IndexFocusing 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.English fictionMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismEnglish fictionEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismGroup identity in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Group identity in literature.823.209823.3093552823/.2/09Phillips Joshua1465138MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781057703321English fictions of communal identity, 1485-16033675004UNINA