Body Narratives Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England
Description
Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Spenser, Sidney, Ralegh and others, and traces its interdependence in their narratives of national identity, imperial expansion and gender difference.
Keywords
Literary CriticismPoetryModernSocial ScienceSociologyLanguage Arts & DisciplinesAnthropologyCultural & Social
2000Book
Author(s)S. Scholz
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333761021
LanguageEnglish
