Forms of Nationhood

The Elizabethan Writing of England

Richard Helgerson

 Forms of Nationhood
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Richard Helgerson

375 pages | 17 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 1992
Paper $27.50 ISBN: 9780226326344 Published February 1995
What have poems and maps, law books and plays, ecclesiastical polemics and narratives of overseas exploration to do with one another? By most accounts, very little. They belong to different genres and have been appropriated by scholars in different disciplines. But, as Richard Helgerson shows in this ambitious and wide-ranging study, all were part of an extraordinary sixteenth- and seventeenth-century enterprise: the project of making England.
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