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  3. Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2019
Print publication year:
2019
Online ISBN:
9781108525251
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525251
Subjects:
Literature, American Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
Series:
Early Modern Literature in Transition
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Book description

The years 1660 to 1714 represent a fraught transitional period, one caught between two now dominant periodization rubrics: early modern and the long eighteenth century. Containing narratives of disruption, restoration, and reconfiguration, Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714 explores the conjunctions and disjunctions between historical and literary developments in this period, when the sociable, rivalrous textual world of letters registered and accelerated changes. Each of the volume's four parts highlights the relationship of various literary forms to a different kind of transformation - generic, ideological, cultural, or local. The five chapters in each section rigorously probe the conditions that affected the period's literary transformations, and interrogate the traditions that canonical and less established writers inherited, adapted, and often challenged. In making a case for an early mimetically produced English nation, this book, through its concentration on literary evidence and transitions also makes innovative contributions to an understanding of nationalism in the period.

Reviews

‘… Emergent Nations proves as vibrantly heterogeneous and microcosmic as London’s new parks.’

Alex Garganigo Source: The Review of English Studies

‘… [a] very welcome, very accomplished, and surely important volume.’

Matthew C. Augustine Source: Modern Philology

‘An extraordinary survey of 157 years of British literature, when all was in transition, this trilogy is a milestone publishing event. Essential reading for both historians and anyone who wants to understand the literature of today.’

Cliff Cunningham Source: SunNewsAustin

'Each essay concludes with suggestions for further reading, and many are accompanied by clear, well reproduced black- and- white illustrations … signal achievements in current early modern scholarship.'

Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler Source: Milton Quarterly

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