| Description |
1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Studies in the History of Political Thought, 1873-6548 ; Volume 8 |
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Studies in the history of political thought ; v. 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
The Making of Englishmen; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Conventions; List of Figures; Introduction; PART ONE: THE PLAIN ENGLISHMAN; 1. The Rise of an Ethos of Plainness; 2. The Plain-Speaking Englishman; A Language in Flux; The Cult of Homespun Speech; Politicisation of the Plain Englishman; The Speech of Returned Travellers; The Courtier's Velvet Terms; Discoursing Gestures; 3. The Image of the Englishman; The Politics of Appearance; A Golden Age of Native Dress; The Materials of Identity; A World of Fashions; Dressing the Head; PART TWO: THE LOYAL ENGLISHMAN. |
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4. The Development of an anti-Catholic Narrative5. The Estrangement of English Catholics; Constructing a Plain, Protestant and un-French Utopia; The Alienation of the Jesuits; The Ideological Battle Against Spanishness; Debating National Authenticity; 6. The Fabrication of a Jesuited Mock Weal; Catholic Reassertions of Englishness; Staging Englishness and Jesuitism; Machiavels and Mercuries in the Caroline Era; The Triumph of a Stereotype; PART THREE: THE FREE ENGLISHMAN; 7. The Growth of a Rhetoric of Liberty; 8. The Rights-Bearing Englishman; Early Statements in Parliament. |
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The 1628 Synthesis of RightsLiberties as Popular Polemic; The New Enemies of Liberty; Revolutionary Implications; 9. The Neo-Classical Englishman; The Roman Tradition; The Spectre of National Decline; The Brink of Degeneration; The Classical Republican Turn; The 'Fate' of English Liberty; Conclusion; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Printed Primary Sources; Secondary Works; Index of Subjects; Index of Names. |
| Summary |
Making the Englishmen offers an account of how national identities were construed and contested in the post-Reformation public sphere 1550-1650. |
| Local Note |
Brill eBooks, open access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
National characteristics, English -- History -- 16th century.
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National characteristics, English -- History -- 17th century.
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Group identity -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Group identity -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
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Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
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National characteristics, English. (OCoLC)fst01033413
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Nationalism and literature. (OCoLC)fst01033884
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Chronological Term |
1500-1699
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Larkin, Hilary. Making of Englishmen : debates on national identity, 1550-1650. Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, ©2014 x, 347 pages Studies in the history of political thought ; Volume 8 1873-6548 9789004234734 |
| ISBN |
9789004243873 (electronic book) |
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9004243879 (electronic book) |
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900423473X (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9789004234734 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9781306027991 (MyiLibrary) |
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1306027993 (MyiLibrary) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004243873 DOI |
