Body Narratives Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Ear
Body Narratives deals with the configurations in the literature and culture of sixteenth-century England. It investigates the relationship between disciplinary discourses of the human body and political body imagery in the texts of courtly writers like Sp
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Body Narratives Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England Susanne Scholz
First published in Great Britain 2000 by
MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978-1-349-41418-5 ISBN 978-0-230-28768-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230287686 First published in the United States of America 2000 by ST. MARTIN’S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-22783-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Scholz, Susanne, 1966– Body narratives : writing the nation and fashioning the subject in early modern England / Susanne Scholz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-312-22783-8 (cloth) 1. English literature—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. 2. Body, Human, in literature. 3. Politics and literature—Great Britain—History—16th century. 4. Literature and society—England—History—16th century. 5. Nationalism—England– –History—16th century. 6. Nationalism in literature. 7. Imperialism in literature. 8. Sex role in literature. 9. Narration (Rhetoric) I. Title. PR428.B63S38 1999 820.9'35—dc21 99–33529 CIP © Susanne Scholz 2000 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2000 978-0-333-76102-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 09
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Contents Acknowledgements
viii
A Note on the Text
ix
Introduction
1
Part I. The Subject’s New Body
13
1 Well-Tempered Bodies: Self-Government and Subjectivity
15
2 Imagined Individuals: A Body of One’s Own
38
3 Gendered Objects: Sexualizing the Female Body
57
Part II. The Body of the Nation
79
4 Time, Space, and the Body in the Narrative of the Nation
81
5 Internal Imperialism: Domestic Loyalties
106
6 Astraea’s Substitute: Ireland and the Quest for National Unity
127
7 Female Territories: Textualizing the Body of the Other
148
Notes
174
Bibliography
195
Index
204
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Acknowledgements My first thanks are due to Tom Healy and Ge
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