An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to the Tempest Volume 16

by Jeffrey Knapp

Book Overview

What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks to the Reformation, grow spiritually divided from the Continent as well, but every one of their attempts to colonize the New World actually failed. Jeffrey...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520306066
• ISBN13: 9780520306066
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"