The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare

By:

Deanne Williams

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

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What was the impact of the Norman Conquest on the culture of medieval and early modern England? Deanne Williams answers this question by contending that not only French language and literature, but the idea of Frenchness itself, produced England's literary and cultural identity. Examining a variety of English representations of, and responses to, France and 'the French' in the work of Chaucer, Caxton, Skelton, Shakespeare and others, this book shows how English literature emerged out of a simultaneous engagement with, and resistance to, the pervasive presence of French language and culture in England that was the legacy of the Norman Conquest. Drawing upon current theories of gender and postcoloniality, this book revises traditional notions of English literary history by inserting France as a primary element in English self-fashioning, from Chaucer's Prioress to Shakespeare's Henry V.

Author Biography:

Deanne Williams is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, York University, Toronto.

Release date Australia

November 18th, 2004

Author

Deanne Williams

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

18 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

302

Series

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x21

ISBN-13

9780521832168

Product ID

3638143

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