The Culture of Cloth in Early Modern England

Textual Constructions of a National Identity

Roze Hentschell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25986-7 (ISBN)

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Through its exploration of the intersections between the culture of the wool broadcloth industry and the literature of the early modern period, this study contributes to the expanding field of material studies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The author argues that it is impossible to comprehend the development of emerging English nationalism during that time period, without considering the culture of the cloth industry. She shows that, reaching far beyond its status as a commodity of production and exchange, that industry was also a locus for organizing sentiments of national solidarity across social and economic divisions. Hentschell looks to textual productions-both imaginative and non-fiction works that often treat the cloth industry with mythic importance-to help explain how cloth came to be a catalyst for nationalism. Each chapter ties a particular mode, such as pastoral, prose romance, travel propaganda, satire, and drama, with a specific issue of the cloth industry, demonstrating the distinct work different literary genres contributed to what the author terms the 'culture of cloth'.

Roze Hentschell is Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, USA.

Contents: Introduction: ancient, famous and decayed: the culture of cloth in early modern England; Part 1 Resistance in the Flock: Labor Rebellion in Pastoral Poetry and Prose Romance: Pasture and pastoral: sheep, anti-enclosure literature, and Sidney's seditious peasants; Clothworkers and social protest: the case of Thomas Deloney. Part 2 The Circulation of Subjectivity in the Cloth Trade: 'Vente for our English clothes': promoting early New World expansion; Treasonous textiles: foreign cloth and the construction of Englishness. Part 3 Staging the Cloth Crisis: The fleecing of England, or the drama of corrupt drapers: Thomas Middleton's Michaelmas Term; Politics on parade: the Cockayne project and Anthony Munday's civic pageants for the Drapers; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-138-25986-1 / 1138259861
ISBN-13	978-1-138-25986-7 / 9781138259867
Zustand	Neuware