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Pan-protestant heroism in early modern England.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pan-protestant heroism in early modern England./
Author:	Chovanec, Kevin.
Description:	1 online resource (413 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-11A(E).
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781339811628

Pan-protestant heroism in early modern England.
Chovanec, Kevin.

Pan-protestant heroism in early modern England. - 1 online resource (413 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

"Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern England" explores transnational religious identifications in England by tracing the written response to and construction of Protestant heroes of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, among them, Willem and Maurits van Oranje, Henry Stuart, Friedrich V, and Gustavus Adolphus. Intervening in the critical conversation on early modern nation-writing and the construction of Englishness, I argue that continental figures like these profoundly shaped English identity in the early modern period. While most historians believe that nationalism and indeed the nation are constructs of a later period, Richard Helgerson, Claire McEachern, and others have posited the sixteenth century as a key moment in the construction of England. Yet this research, and even more recent multinational approaches that consider how foreigners shaped English identity, focuses too heavily on ethnic alterity and neglects the ways in which religious communion provided alternate possible identities. I argue that the transnational lens of pan-Protestant heroism uncovers literary communities and collaboration generally obscured by our nationalized conception of literature. Heroic figures attracted literary responses -- in poems lionizing their accomplishments, theorizing their roles in God's church, and eventually mourning their deaths -- responses that spanned across political and linguistic borders. Protestant writers throughout Europe shared the same tropes, types, and literary genres when celebrating these idealized men. Through my research, I question the anachronistic national organization of early modern literature. I consider German, Dutch, and neo-Latin writing on these figures because English writers clearly understand themselves to be participating in a transnational project -- part of a wider pan-Protestant literary field.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781339811628Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148425
British & Irish literature.
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Electronic books.

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