Description |
1 online resource (x, 241 pages) |
Contents |
1. The Nation -- 2. Church and People -- 3. The Story of England -- 4. Englishness in the Auchinleck Manuscript (Advocates 19.2.1) -- 5. Nation and Region -- 6. Three Languages |
Summary |
England the Nation is the first book to pay detailed attention to the earlier fourteenth century in England as a literary period in its own right. Thorlac Turville-Petre surveys the wide range of writings by the generation before Chaucer, and explores how English writers in the half-century leading up to the outbreak of the Hundred Years War expressed their concepts of England as a nation, and how they exploited the association between nation, people, and language |
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At the centre of Turville-Petre's work is a study of the construction of national identity that takes place in the histories written in English. The contribution of romances and saints' lives to an awareness of the nation's past are also considered, as in the questions of how writers were able to reconcile their sense of regional identity with commitment to the nation. A final chapter explores the interrelationship between England's three languages - Latin, French, and English - at a time when English was attaining the status of the national language, Middle English quotations are glossed or translated into modern English throughout. England the Nation takes the current debate on nationalism into a new area, and will be of interest to anyone studying medieval English literature and history, as well as the development of nationalism, and the rise of English as a national language |
Analysis |
English literature History, 1066-1400 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-236) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500
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National characteristics, English, in literature.
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Nationalism -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Language and culture -- England
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Languages in contact -- England
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Historiography -- England -- History
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Nationalism -- England -- History
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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Literature
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Civilization
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English literature -- Middle English
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Historiography
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Language and culture
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Language and languages
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Languages in contact
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National characteristics, English, in literature
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Nationalism
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Letterkunde.
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Engels.
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Nationaal bewustzijn.
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18.05 English literature.
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Nationalisme -- Grande-Bretagne -- Angleterre (GB) -- 14e siècle.
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Anglais -- Dans la littérature.
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Littérature anglaise -- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) -- Histoire et critique.
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Nationalisme et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- 14e siècle.
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SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Historiography
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Great Britain -- History -- To 1066 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056723
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England -- Literatures -- History and criticism
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England -- Civilization -- 1066-1485.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043274
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England -- Languages.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2019102629
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England
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Great Britain
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Grande-Bretagne -- Langues.
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Angleterre (GB) -- Civilisation -- 1066-1500.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191671548 |
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0191671541 |