The making of Englishmen : debates on national identity, 1550-1650 / by Hilary Larkin.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in the history of political thought ; v. 8.Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789004243873
- 9004243879
- 900423473X
- 9789004234734
- 9781306027991
- 1306027993
- National characteristics, English -- History -- 16th century
- National characteristics, English -- History -- 17th century
- Group identity -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Group identity -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
- Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
- English language -- Rhetoric -- Political aspects
- Anglais -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Anglais -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Identité collective -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Identité collective -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Nationalisme et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Nationalisme et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Anglais (Langue) -- Rhétorique -- Aspect politique
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- HISTORY / Europe / General
- Group identity
- National characteristics, English
- Nationalism and literature
- England
- Great Britain
- DA118 .L375 2014eb
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The Making of Englishmen; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Conventions; List of Figures; Introduction; PART ONE: THE PLAIN ENGLISHMAN; 1. The Rise of an Ethos of Plainness; 2. The Plain-Speaking Englishman; A Language in Flux; The Cult of Homespun Speech; Politicisation of the Plain Englishman; The Speech of Returned Travellers; The Courtier's Velvet Terms; Discoursing Gestures; 3. The Image of the Englishman; The Politics of Appearance; A Golden Age of Native Dress; The Materials of Identity; A World of Fashions; Dressing the Head; PART TWO: THE LOYAL ENGLISHMAN.
4. The Development of an anti-Catholic Narrative5. The Estrangement of English Catholics; Constructing a Plain, Protestant and un-French Utopia; The Alienation of the Jesuits; The Ideological Battle Against Spanishness; Debating National Authenticity; 6. The Fabrication of a Jesuited Mock Weal; Catholic Reassertions of Englishness; Staging Englishness and Jesuitism; Machiavels and Mercuries in the Caroline Era; The Triumph of a Stereotype; PART THREE: THE FREE ENGLISHMAN; 7. The Growth of a Rhetoric of Liberty; 8. The Rights-Bearing Englishman; Early Statements in Parliament.
The 1628 Synthesis of RightsLiberties as Popular Polemic; The New Enemies of Liberty; Revolutionary Implications; 9. The Neo-Classical Englishman; The Roman Tradition; The Spectre of National Decline; The Brink of Degeneration; The Classical Republican Turn; The 'Fate' of English Liberty; Conclusion; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Printed Primary Sources; Secondary Works; Index of Subjects; Index of Names.
Making the Englishmen offers an account of how national identities were construed and contested in the post-Reformation public sphere 1550-1650.
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