Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell

by Lynn Staley

Book Overview

For centuries England's writers used the metaphor of their country as an island garden to engage in a self-conscious debate about national identity. In The Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell, Lynn Staley suggests that the trope of Britain as an island garden catalyzed two crucial historical perspectives and thus analytic modes: as isolated and vulnerable, England stood in a potentially hostile relation to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268041407
• ISBN13: 9780268041403
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"