England the Nation: Language, Literature, and National Identity, 1290-1340

By Thorlac Turville-Petre

Turville-Petre surveys the wide range of writings by the generation before Chaucer. He explores how English writers in the half-century leading up to the outbreak of the Hundred Years War expressed their concepts of England as a nation, and how they exploited the association between nation, people, and language. The study forms a significant contribution to current debates on nationalism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198122799
• ISBN13: 9780198122791
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"