Early Modern Transatlantic Encounters and the Formation of English National Identity

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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In the crucible of New World encounters - discursive, ideological, and experiential - there developed multiple forms of English nationhood. Elizabeth Sauer showcases the value of a literary critical and cultural account thereof, uncovering, historicizing, and reviewing a rich array of contributions by British, English, and Anglo-American poets, preachers, polemicists, and printers. The casebook studies and alternative canon that make up her study reveal just how vital the transatlantic context and the traffic in books were for the development of the nascent English nation. Among the authors examined are Edmund Spenser, Richard Hakluyt, Francis Bacon, John Winthrop, John Eliot, Roger Williams, Anne Bradstreet, John Milton, John Bunyan, George Fox, William Penn, and Daniel Defoe. Over a century's worth of literary and cultural evidence confirms that research into the early modern wave of nation formation, with its ideological coordinates and cultural mythmaking, enriches understanding of England's protean identity.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-30
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor300
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009778114

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Elizabeth Sauer is Distinguished Professor at Brock University; Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America; and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her previous Cambridge University Press publications include the edited collection Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714 (2019), Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood (2014), and The New Milton Criticism (co-edited with Peter C. Herman, 2012).

'Elizabeth Sauer's Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood (CUP, 2014) established her as a distinguished scholar of the representation of nationhood in early modern literature. In this brilliant successor, her focus is on English national consciousness and identity formation, seen through the prism of encounters with America. This book is a triumph of scholarship.' Gordon Campbell, Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester