Literary landscapes and the idea of England, 700-1400
Clarke, Catherine A.M. (2006) Literary landscapes and the idea of England, 700-1400, Oxford, GB, DS Brewer, 172pp.
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In its exploration of literary representations of ideal landscapes and the production of English identity across Latin and vernacular texts from Bede to Chaucer, this study looks in particular at pastoral and locus amoenus traditions in Medieval English literature, and the early mythologisation of English landscape, space and identity through pastoral topoi. From Bede's Ecclesiastical History and its seminal interpretation of Britain as the delightful island, the study moves through representations of landscape in Old English poetry to the exploitation of the symbolic potential of their local landscapes by regional monastic houses in twelfth- and thirteenth-century texts and pastoral conventions, performances and the idea of the city in the fourteenth century. Introductory and concluding sections form bridges to current scholarship on representations of Englishness through pastoral topoi in the Early Modern period
| Item Type: | Book |
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| ISBNs: | 9781843840572 (hardback) |
| Keywords: | medieval literature, place and identity, pastoral, nationhood |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities > English |
| Item ID: | 208941 |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2012 08:43 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2012 09:02 |
| Contributors: | Clarke, Catherine A.M. (Author) |
| Date: | 21 September 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | DS Brewer |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/208941 |
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