Early Modern Transatlantic Encounters and the Formation of English National Identity

Sauer, Elizabeth

Cambridge University Press（2026/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 300 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009778114

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction: crosscurrents; 1. Plus ultra: Great Britain, Ireland, and new found lands; 2. Revisiting the city upon a hill: puritan migrants, English exceptionalism, and Israel redivivus; 3. The tongues, arts, and arguments of the contact zone; 4. Bloodlines and transatlantic relations; 5. Milton's new worlds; 6. Holy experiments and the Anglo-American literary landscape; Coda: the book abroad.