2010, ISBN: 9781140792390

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Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 10th December, 1934. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 41 pp, plates, ills. 184 lots. Among the highlights noted were the fo… More...

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 10th December, 1934. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 41 pp, plates, ills. 184 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: rare editons of works by R. Braithwaite, Sir Thomas Browne, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Dekker, Henry Fielding, John Ford, Thomas Heywood, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, Matthew Prior, T. Shadwell, James Shirley, Laurence Sterne, and R.S. Surtees. Bacon, "Essayes," 1625; Beaumont & Fletcher, "Comedies and Tragedies," 1647; Burton, "Anatomy of melancholy," 1621; Chaucer, "Workes," (?1545); Coryat, "Crudities," 1611; S. Daniel, "Poeticall essayes," 1599, unique copy; Froissart, "Chronicles," 1523-5; Herrick, "Hesperides," 1648; Holinshed, "Chronicles," 1577; Milton, "Poems," 1645; Schedel, "Chronicon Nurembergensis," 1493; R. Scot, "Discoveries of witchcraft," 1584; Shakespeare, second and fourth folios, "Romeo and Juliet," 1637; Shakespeare and Fletcher, "Two noble kinsmen," 1634; Spenser, "Colin Clouts come home again," 1595; "The weakest goeth to the wall," 1600; Webster, "Dutchesse of Malfy," 1625. Mostly in fine condition and from celebrated libraries, both English and american. Wrappers somewhat duststained, Good., Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 10th December, 1934, 1934, James MacLehose and Sons. Used - Acceptable. Ships from the UK. pages are worn. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside., James MacLehose and Sons, Ashgate Publishing Limited, UK, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition. 200 Pages. Slightly split to top of spine. Both boards are lightly marked. Archipelagic Identities explores the invention and interplay of national, regional and linguistic identities in the literatures of early modern Britain and Ireland. The volume includes innovative work by leading practitioners of British studies, and sheds new light on classic cases such as Edmund Spenser's Irish experience, whilst also introducing less familiar writers and texts, such as Anne Dowriche's The French Historie, William Browne's Britannia Pastorals, William Richards' Wallography, Anne Bradstreet's 'Dialogue between Old England and New', and the works of Gaelic bards and French Huguenot refugees. Foregrounding issues of gender, class and migratory identity which have not previously received significant attention in this field, Archipelagic Identities brings British studies into the mainstream of contemporary literary criticism. Contents: Introduction; Philip Schwyzer; An uncertain union (a dialogue), David Baker and Willy Maley; Part I Looking for Britain: This pleasant and sceptred isle: insular fantasies of national identity in Anne Dowriche's The French Historie and William Shakespeare's Richard II, Kate Chedgzoy; Whose pastorals? William Browne of Tavistock and the Singing of Britannia, Gillian Wright; Defoe, Scotland and Union, John Kerrigan; Part II Spenser's Islands: Marrying waterways: politicizing and gendering the landscape in Spenser's Faerie Queene River-Marriage Canto, Joan Fitzpatrick; From Irish countries to English counties: state sovereignty and territorial reorganization in early modern Ireland, Swen Voekel; Spenser and the Stuart succession, Andrew Hadfield; Part III Representing the Nation: Provincial identification and the struggle over representation in Thomas Coryat's Crudities (1611), Melanie Ord; The complaint of Caledonia: Scottish identity and the female voice, Murray G.H. Pittock; 'A witty book, but mostly feigned': William Richards' Wallography and perceptions of Wales in later 17th-century England, Michael Roberts; Part IV Immigrants and Emigrants: 'Signes of a Stranger': the English language and the English Nation in the late 16th century, Emma Smith; O Belle Tamise: the development of a Huguenot pastoral mode in Elizabethan England, Simon Mealor; 'Our British land': Anne Bradstreet's Atlantic perspective, Christopher Ivic; Bibliography; Index. Book Description: Archipelagic Identities explores the invention and interplay of national, regional and linguistic identities in the literatures of early modern Britain and Ireland. The volume includes innovative work by leading practitioners of British studies, and sheds new light on classic cases such as Edmund Spenser's Irish experience, whilst also introducing less familiar writers and texts, such as Anne Dowriche's The French Historie, William Browne's Britannia Pastorals, William Richards' Wallography, Anne Bradstreet's 'Dialogue between Old England and New', and the works of Gaelic bards and French Huguenot refugees. Foregrounding issues of gender, class and migratory identity which have not previously received significant attention in this field, Archipelagic Identities brings British studies into the mainstream of contemporary literary criticism. : About the Author: Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter, UK and Simon Mealor, formerly Hertford College Oxford, UK Philip Schwyzer, David Baker, Willy Maley, Kate Chedgzoy, Gillian Wright, John Kerrigan, Joan Fitzpatrick, Swen Voekel, Andrew Hadfield, Melanie Ord, Murray G.H. Pittock, Michael Roberts, Emma Smith, Simon Mealor, Christopher Ivic. Size: 1.9 x 15.9 x 22.2 cm. 240 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN: 0754635848. ISBN/EAN: 9780754635840. Inventory No: X130-1042. . 9780754635840, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004, James MacLehose and Sons. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities., James MacLehose and Sons, Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-05-27. Paperback. Used:Good. Ships Fast. Expedite Shipping Available., Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-05-27<