Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions

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A. D. Cousins (Macquarie University, Sydney) Geoffrey Payne (Macquarie University, Sydney)

Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions

A. D. Cousins (Macquarie University, Sydney), Geoffrey Payne (Macquarie University, Sydney)

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Cambridge University Press
05 November 2015

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; English Civil War; Napoleonic Wars

In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for 'home' or struggling to establish the 'nation'. These were also important preoccupations between the English and the French revolutions: a period when Britain was first at war within itself, then achieved a confident if precarious equilibrium, and finally seemed to have come once more to the edge of overthrow. In the century and a half between revolution experienced and revolution observed, the impulse to identify or implicitly appropriate home and nation was elemental to British literature. This wide-ranging study by international scholars provides an innovative and thorough account of writings that vigorously contested notions and images of the nation and of private domestic space within it, tracing the larger patterns of debate, while at the same time exploring how particular writers situated themselves within it and gave it shape.

Edited by: A. D. Cousins (Macquarie University Sydney), Geoffrey Payne (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9781107064409
ISBN 10: 1107064406
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 05 November 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

A. D. Cousins is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Member of the Order of Australia. He has published thirteen books in America and England, including monographs on Thomas More, Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, and religious verse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is on the Editorial Board of Moreana, the international journal of More and Erasmus studies, and of the Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (JLLC) (formerly AUMLA). Geoffrey Payne is Lecturer in the Department of English at Macquarie University, Australia. He served as treasurer for the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association from 2008 to 2013 and was Managing Editor of their journal (AUMLA) between 2008 and 2011. His first book, Dark Imaginings: Ideology and Darkness in the Poetry of Lord Byron, was published in 2008.