Citing Milton''s major prose works from the civil war through to the Restoration, Walker reveals a Milton who is antiformalist in his constitutional thought, unrevolutionary in his general socio-political outlook, and markedly illiberal on a wide range of social, religious and p…
Nation-building canons : historical and methodological considerations / Viktorija Šeina -- The shaping of national, cultural and literary identities. Classicists and the Classics : the Polish literary canon in academia (1800-1830) / Helena Markowska-Fulara -- The concept of Lith…
Nation-building canons : historical and methodological considerations / Viktorija Šeina -- The shaping of national, cultural and literary identities. Classicists and the Classics : the Polish literary canon in academia (1800-1830) / Helena Markowska-Fulara -- The concept of Lith…
"In this volume, seventeen scholars from Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia present their research on the formation and transformation of national literary canons as a practice of nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics. The articles focus on the shaping…
In this volume, seventeen scholars from Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia present their research on the formation and transformation of national literary canons as a practice of nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics.The articles focus on the shaping o…
"In this volume, seventeen scholars from Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia present their research on the formation and transformation of national literary canons as a practice of nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics. The articles focus on the shaping…
Nationalism and the postcolonial
by Dinter, Sandra, Marquardt, Johanna
fromCross/cultures (Amsterdam)
"Often thought of as a thing of the past, nationalism remains surprisingly resilient in the postcolonial era, especially since the concepts of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism have lost authority in recent years. The contributions assembled in Nationalism and the Postcolonia…
Early modern nationalism and Milton's England
"The first book to examine major aspects of Milton's nationalism in its full complexity and diversity, Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England features fifteen essays by leading international scholars who illuminate the significance of the nation as a powerful imaginative …
Although the poet John Milton was a politically active citizen and polemicist during the English Revolution, little has been written on Milton's concept of nationalism. The first book to examine major aspects of Milton's nationalism in its full complexity and diversity, Early Mo…
Sir Walter Scott, once an immensely popular writer, is now largely forgotten. This book explores how works like 'Waverley' 'Ivanhoe', and 'Rob Roy' percolated into all aspects of cultural and social life in the 19th century, and how his work continues to resonate into the presen…