The 'Shepheard's Nation'

Jacobean Spenserians and Early Stuart Political Culture 1612-25

By: Michelle O'Callaghan

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Hardcover | 1 April 2000

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284 Pages

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This is a study of a group of Jacobean Spenserian poets, William Browne, George Wither, and Christopher Brooke, and of the ways in which these writers represented themselves as a distinctive oppositional community in the years 1612 to 1625. This Spenserian community had its social basis in the culture of early modern London and was given physical expression through the practice of collaboration and an innovative use of print. Yet, it was also an 'imagined community' expressed through fictions that drew on common literary and political traditions. The result was a type of literary commonwealth that claimed the authority to engage in public debate on issues of politics and culture. By drawing attention to the relationships between writers and the traditions and environments that enable textual communities, this book provides a new perspective for studying early modern culture.

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`O'Callaghan is adept at showing how the Spenserians kept in touch, once they had been dispersed throughout England, as members of a textual community ... The Shepheardes Nation is an important contribution to our understanding of Jacobean literature and politics. Michelle O'Callaghan writes lucidly and carefully, and her book is genuinely interdisciplinary, dealing authoritatively with politcal history and theory and with the development of print culture, as well as with literary works' Andrew Hadfield, Times Literary Supplement `O'Callaghan's interest and expertise in the political and bibliographical contexts makes her an admirable guide.' Andrew King, June 2001 `an engaging and ambitious book ... O'Callaghan ... is especially successful at relating the literature to contemporary events' Andrew King, June 2001

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