The culture of cloth in early modern England : textual constructions of a national identity
Exploring the intersections between the culture of the wool broadcloth industry and the imaginative literature of the early modern period, this study shows how the culture of the cloth industry was intrinsically connected to the development of emerging English nationalism. Each chapter ties a particular genre with a specific issue of the cloth industry, demonstrating the distinct work different literary genres contributed to the "culture of cloth."
History
viii, 209 pages ; 24 cm
9780754663010, 0754663019
181368852
Pasture and pastoral : sheep, anti-enclosure literature, and Sidney's seditious peasants
Clothworkers and social protest : the case of Thomas Deloney
"Vente for our English clothes" : promoting early New World expansion
Treasonous textiles : foreign cloth, and the construction of Englishness
The fleecing of England, or the drama of corrupt drapers : Thomas Middleton's Michaelmas term
Politics on parade : the Cockayne project and Anthony Munday's civic pageants for the drapers