An Empire Nowhere England America and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest 1st Edition by Jeffrey Knapp 9780520310971 0520310977

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ISBN 10: 0520310977

ISBN 13: 9780520310971

Author: Jeffrey Knapp

What caused England’s literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England’s sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks to the Reformation, grow spiritually divided from the Continent as well, but every one of their attempts to colonize the New World actually failed. Jeffrey Knapp accounts for this strange combination of literary expansion and national isolation by showing how the English made a virtue of their increasing insularity. Ranging across a wide array of literary and extraliterary sources, Knapp argues that English poets rejected the worldly acquisitiveness of an empire like Spain’s and took pride in England’s material limitations as a sign of its spiritual strength. In the imaginary worlds of such fictions as Utopia, The Faerie Queene, and The Tempest, they sought a grander empire, founded on the “otherworldly” virtues of both England and poetry itself. This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992. 

Table of contents:

1. Introduction
2. An Empire Nowhere
3. Eliza and Elizium
4. Error as a Means of Empire
5. Divine Tobacco
6. The Triumph of Disgrace
7. Distraction in The Tempest
8. Epilogue: THE POEM AS HETEROCOSM

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