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Author:

Staley, Lynn, 1947-

Title:

The island garden : England's language of nation from Gildas to Marvell / Lynn Staley.

Publisher:

University of Notre Dame Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 345 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

National characteristics, British, in literature.
English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Great Britain--History.
Islands in literature.
Gardens in literature.
Geography in literature.
Great Britain--Historiography.--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066--Historiography.
Great Britain--Historiography.--1066-1687--Historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-333) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The language of place -- Writing in the shadow of Bede : England, the island garden -- The island garden and the anxieties of enclosure -- The fourteenth century and place -- Susanna and her garden -- Conclusion : island discourse.

Series:

ReFormations : medieval and early modern.

ISBN:

0268041407 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268041403 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)769430634

LCCN:

2012008953

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)