1st Edition
Holinshed's Nation Ideals, Memory, and Practical Policy in the Chronicles
By Igor Djordjevic
Copyright 2010
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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Raphael Holinshed's account of English history from 1377-1485 in the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland is most well-known as the source of Shakespeare's English history plays. Although the Chronicles are widely read and studied, published scholarly opinion, with a few exceptions, has been limited to the discipline of history. This book explores the historiographic materials of the... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Reading Early Modern Chronicles; Chapter 2 Hearing the Trumpet; Chapter 3 Reading with “True English Harts”; Chapter 4 Seeing the Mirror; Chapter 5 A Commonwealth of Readers; Chapter 6 Singing Hosanna;
Biography
Igor Djordjevic is an Associate Professor of English at York University, Canada.
'Djordjevic's book is lucidly written and admirably free of inflated, abstract, and needlessly pretentious jargon. Its arguments are pointed, precise, and evidential. Those unfamiliar with Holinshed will find it extremely useful; those who believe that they already know the Chronicles well will find in it much to augment and perhaps to challenge their thinking.' Renaissance Quarterly 'Holinshed's Nation reflects a serious (and for the most part, solid) response to Annabel Patterson's contention that Holinshed's Chronicles deserve our careful reading and reflection.' The Library 'Djordjevic's book is rich with implications for how chronicles could become maps to national greatness and ethical politics in early modern England, even taking the argument into the pre-Civil War era when more didactic readings were expected and providential history were the norm. ... [This study is] opening up a new way to see this influential text, on which Shakespeare and others constructed much of England's national identity in these critical years, gives both historians and literary scholars much to think about.' Literature & History '... an important examination of the Chronicles' shaping of early modern political values that admirably keeps in view the significant differences between its editions and the importance of its early modern readers.' English Studies
