English Fictions of Communal Identity, 1485–1603
| By: | Phillips, Joshua, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754665984 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409475682 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Challenging a long-standing trend that sees the Renaissance as the end of communal identity and constitutive group affiliation, author Joshua Phillips explores the perseverance of such affiliation throughout Tudor culture.
Focusing on prose fiction from Malory's Morte Darthur through the works of Sir Philip Sidney and Thomas Nashe, this study explores the concept of collective agency and the extensive impact it had on English Renaissance culture. In contrast to studies devoted to the myth of early modern individuation, English Fictions of Communal Identity, 1485