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Alien Albion

Oldenburg, Scott

2014,2015

Overview

Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Oldenburg uncovers how immigrants to England forged ties with their English hosts and how those relationships were reflected in literature that imagined inclusive, multicultural communities. Through discussions of civic pageantry, the plays of dramatists including William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Middleton, the poetry of Anne Dowriche, and the prose of Thomas Deloney, Alien Albion challenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class, and local identities in the early modern era.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press,University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
• Subject: 16th century / Early modern, 1500-1700 / Emigration and immigration / England / England -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 16th century / England -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 16th century / English literature / English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism / English literature -- Foreign authors -- History and criticism / English literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / Ethnic relations / Europe / European / Foreign authors / Great Britain / HISTORY / HISTORY / Renaissance / History and criticism / HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General / Immigrants / Immigrants -- England -- History -- 16th century / Immigrants in literature / Language & Literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance / Minority authors / Renaissance
• ISBN: 9781442647190, 1442647191, 1442630787, 9781442630789, 9781442667495, 1442667508, 9781442667501, 1442667494