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Strange Communion
Jacqueline Vanhoutte
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Motherland and Masculinity in Tudor Plays, Pamphlets, and Politics
出版University of Delaware Press, 2003
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / DramaLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / PoliticsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Culture, Race & EthnicityLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender IdentityPolitical Science / Public Affairs & AdministrationPolitical Science / World / European
ISBN08741383299780874138320
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2uW4pcantCEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Strange Communion concerns the development in Tudor culture of a tendency to identify the common good with the health of the motherland. Playwrights, polemicists, and politicians such as John Bale, Richard Morison, and William Shakespeare, among others, relied on maternal representations of England to evoke a sense of common purpose. Vanhoutte examines how such motherland tropes came to describe England, how they changed in response to specific political crises, and how they came, by the end of the sixteenth century, to shape literary ideals of masculinity. While Henrician propagandists appealed to Mother England in order to enforce dynastic privilege, their successors modified nationalist symbols as to qualify absolute monarchy. The accessions of two queens thus encouraged a convergence of nationalist and patriarchal ideologies: in late Tudor works, evocations of the national family tend to efface class distinctions while reinforcing gender distinctions. Dr. Jacqueline Vanhoutte is an assistant professor at the University of North Texas.