Against all England : regional identity and Cheshire writing, 1195-1656 / Robert W. Barrett, Jr.

Author/creator Barrett, Robert W., 1969-
Format Book
Publication InfoNotre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxv, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects
English literature--England. --Cheshire. --History and criticism.
Literature and society--England. --Cheshire.
Cheshire (England)--In literature.
Cheshire (England)--Intellectual life.

SeriesReformations
Reformations. ^A794449
Contents From cloister to corporation: imagining Chester in benedictine encomium and saint's life -- Grounds of grace: mobile meaning and processional performance in the Chester Whitsun plays -- Chester's triumph: absence and authority in seventeenth-century civic ceremonial -- Cheshire the county : destabilizing national identity in regional romance -- Heraldic devices/chivalric divisions: Sir Gawain and the green knight and the Scrope-Grosvenor trial -- Two shires against all England: celebrating regional affinity in the Stanley family romances.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-295) and index.
LCCN 2008035611
ISBN9780268022099 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0268022097 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 8309.C47 B37 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold