680-1638

680-1638
Author: Charles Wells Moulton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 812
Release: 1901
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Forms of Nationhood

Forms of Nationhood
Author: Richard Helgerson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226326344

What have poems and maps, law books and plays, ecclesiastical polemics and narratives of overseas exploration to do with one another? By most accounts, very little. They belong to different genres and have been appropriated by scholars in different disciplines. But, as Richard Helgerson shows in this ambitious and wide-ranging study, all were part of an extraordinary sixteenth- and seventeenth-century enterprise: the project of making England.