Literature, Nationalism, and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales

Philip Schwyzer charts the genesis, development and disintegration of British nationalism in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. An important contribution to the scholarship on early modern Britishness, this study argues that Welsh texts and traditions crucially influenced the development of English literature and identity.

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