Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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JOHN M. ADRIAN Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA, where he teaches courses on Renaissance Literature and directs the College's Honors Programme. He has published articles on sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and culture in journals such as English Literary Renaissance, The Seventeenth Century, and Renaissance Papers.

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Book Title: Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680
Authors: John M. Adrian
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307216
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27771-7Published: 28 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32561-0Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30721-6Published: 28 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 238
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Early Modern Europe

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