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Cymbeline : constructions of Britain
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ISBN: 075460974X Year: 2005 Publisher: Aldershot : Ashgate,

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The return of King Arthur and the Nibelungen : national myth in nineteenth-century English and German literature
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ISBN: 3110150840 9783110150841 3110812541 Year: 1998 Volume: v. 10 Publisher: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter,

Literature, nationalism, and memory in early modern England and Wales
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ISBN: 9780521125420 9780521843034 9780511483950 0511231458 9780511231452 0511229062 9780511229060 0511229909 9780511229909 0521843030 0511483953 1280703288 9781280703287 0521843030 1107163579 9781107163577 0511230680 9780511230684 0511316674 9780511316678 0521125421 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Tudor era has long been associated with the rise of nationalism in England, yet nationalist writing in this period often involved the denigration and outright denial of Englishness. Philip Schwyzer argues that the ancient, insular, and imperial nation imagined in the works of writers such as Shakespeare and Spenser was not England, but Britain. Disclaiming their Anglo-Saxon ancestry, the English sought their origins in a nostalgic vision of British antiquity. Focusing on texts including The Faerie Queene, English and Welsh antiquarian works, The Mirror for Magistrates, Henry V and King Lear, Schwyzer charts the genesis, development and disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. An important contribution to the expanding scholarship on early modern Britishness, this study gives detailed attention to Welsh texts and traditions, arguing that Welsh sources crucially influenced the development of English literature and identity.

Sovereign fantasies : Arthurian romance and the making of Britain
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ISBN: 0812236009 0812292545 Year: 2001 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.) : University of Pennsylvania press,

Myth and national identity in nineteenth-century Britain: the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood
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ISBN: 019820728X 0191677612 0191542733 1280445351 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Scholars continue to find that fictional narratives provide rich insight into the historical development of a modern national consciousness. In nineteenth-century Britain, the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood played an important role in construction of contemporary national identity. These two legends provide important windows on British culture and draw from very different perspectives. King Arthur and Robin Hood have traditionally been diametrically opposed in their ideological orientation, with Arthur at the pinnacle of the social and political hierarchy and Robin Hood completely outside conventional hierarchical structures. The fact that two such different figures could simultaneously function as British national heroes suggests that nineteenth-century British nationalism did not represent a single set of values and ideas, but rather that it was forced to assimilate a variety of competing points of view.

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English literature --- Thematology --- Robin Hood --- Arthur [King] --- anno 1800-1899 --- Nationalism and literature --- Arthurian romances --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- Medievalism --- Robin Hood (Legendary character) in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Britons in literature. --- Outlaws in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- Littérature anglaise --- Nationalisme et littérature --- Roman arthurien --- Caractéristiques nationales britanniques dans la littérature --- Médiévisme --- Robin des bois (Personnage légendaire) dans la littérature --- Nationalisme dans la littérature --- Bretons de Grande-Bretagne dans la littérature --- Hors-la-loi dans la littérature --- Mythe dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Adaptations --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Adaptation --- Arthur, --- In literature. --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Littérature anglaise --- Nationalisme et littérature --- Caractéristiques nationales britanniques dans la littérature --- Médiévisme --- Robin des bois (Personnage légendaire) dans la littérature --- Nationalisme dans la littérature --- Bretons de Grande-Bretagne dans la littérature --- Hors-la-loi dans la littérature --- Mythe dans la littérature --- King Arthur [Fictitious character] --- Robin Hood [Fictitious character] --- KING ARTHUR --- ROBIN HOOD (LEGENDARY CHARACTER) --- ENGLISH LITERATURE --- 19th CENTURY

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