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Intro; Preface: "Alas, Alas for England"; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; References; Part I (Re)Forming the Commonwealth; Chapter 2 Engendering a Sense of Englishness: The Use of the Mother Tongue in Osbern Bokenham's "Vita Sanctae Margaretae"; A Saintly Genealogy Against Lollardy-The Case of St. Margaret; Bokenham's Language Policy-A Sense of Englishness Against Lollardy; References; Chapter 3 Tricking Sir George into Marriage: The Utopian Moral Reform of the English Commonwealth in Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury
"The Figure of a Flourishing Common-Wealth": Reforming the State from Within"Hee That Hath a Charge Must Looke to It": The Legitimisation of Monarchic Rule; "Troubled with a Shrewe": Anxiety Over Powerful Women; "I Would Wish You to Imitate the Like Vertues": The Reform of National Morals; References; Chapter 4 Shakespeare's Style, Shakespeare's England; Background; Corpus; Methods; Results in Comedy; Results in Other Genres; Discussion; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; References
Chapter 5 Gendering the Archipelago: Nation, State and Empire in the Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies"If You Keep Not Chronicles, Others Do"; "This Book of Mine"; "This Islands Denomination, Derived from the Angels Name"; "Shadowed Out in Samsons Exploits"; References; Part II Importing and Exporting Texts and Ideologies; Chapter 6 By Deeds of Stealth: English Books Abroad in the Mid-Eighteenth Century; Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism; The Iconography of Hollis's Emblems; The Bindings and "A Potencie of Life"; What Did Hollis Achieve?; References
Chapter 7 Sons of Nature: The Bourgeois Pursuit of Happiness in the Swiss Alps and Wordsworth's Lake DistrictCaricaturing the Bourgeois Subject; The Agrarian Myth's Swiss Origins; Wordsworth's Middle-Class Idyll at Grasmere; References; Chapter 8 Wordsworth Un-Englished; Daring Failure; Translation and Estrangement; Amazed by Virgil; Comedy and Consolation; Translation in Tranquillity; References; Part III Explorations of Belonging; Chapter 9 "To Be a True Citizen of Highbury": Language and National Identity in Jane Austen's Emma (1816)
Language and National Character in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesEmma: Language and the Nation; References; Chapter 10 Renegotiating Home and Away in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out; Early Travels; Voyaging Out; "Other Spaces"; References; Chapter 11 English Visions: The Work of Jacquetta Hawkes Priestley; A Land-Englishness as a Symbolic Form; The Priestleys' English Philosophy of Consciousness; A Quest of Love-Ecriture Féminine à l'Anglaise; References.
"The Figure of a Flourishing Common-Wealth": Reforming the State from Within"Hee That Hath a Charge Must Looke to It": The Legitimisation of Monarchic Rule; "Troubled with a Shrewe": Anxiety Over Powerful Women; "I Would Wish You to Imitate the Like Vertues": The Reform of National Morals; References; Chapter 4 Shakespeare's Style, Shakespeare's England; Background; Corpus; Methods; Results in Comedy; Results in Other Genres; Discussion; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; References
Chapter 5 Gendering the Archipelago: Nation, State and Empire in the Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies"If You Keep Not Chronicles, Others Do"; "This Book of Mine"; "This Islands Denomination, Derived from the Angels Name"; "Shadowed Out in Samsons Exploits"; References; Part II Importing and Exporting Texts and Ideologies; Chapter 6 By Deeds of Stealth: English Books Abroad in the Mid-Eighteenth Century; Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism; The Iconography of Hollis's Emblems; The Bindings and "A Potencie of Life"; What Did Hollis Achieve?; References
Chapter 7 Sons of Nature: The Bourgeois Pursuit of Happiness in the Swiss Alps and Wordsworth's Lake DistrictCaricaturing the Bourgeois Subject; The Agrarian Myth's Swiss Origins; Wordsworth's Middle-Class Idyll at Grasmere; References; Chapter 8 Wordsworth Un-Englished; Daring Failure; Translation and Estrangement; Amazed by Virgil; Comedy and Consolation; Translation in Tranquillity; References; Part III Explorations of Belonging; Chapter 9 "To Be a True Citizen of Highbury": Language and National Identity in Jane Austen's Emma (1816)
Language and National Character in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesEmma: Language and the Nation; References; Chapter 10 Renegotiating Home and Away in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out; Early Travels; Voyaging Out; "Other Spaces"; References; Chapter 11 English Visions: The Work of Jacquetta Hawkes Priestley; A Land-Englishness as a Symbolic Form; The Priestleys' English Philosophy of Consciousness; A Quest of Love-Ecriture Féminine à l'Anglaise; References.