{"product_id":"against-all-england-robert-w-jr-barrett-9780268022099","title":"Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst All England\u003c\/em\u003e examines a diverse set of poems, plays, and chronicles produced in Cheshire and its vicinity from the 1190s to the 1650s that collectively argue for the localization of British literary history. These works, including very early monastic writing emanating from St. Werburgh's Abbey, the Chester Whitsun plays, \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e, seventeenth-century ceremonials, and various Stanley romances, share in the creation and revision of England's cultural tradition, demonstrating a vested interest in the intersection of landscape, language, and politics. Barrett's book grounds itself in Cestrian evidence in order to offer scholars a new, dynamic model of cultural topography, one that acknowledges the complex interlacing of regional and national identities within the \u003cem\u003elongue durée\u003c\/em\u003e extending from the post-Conquest period to the Restoration. Covering nearly five centuries of literary production within a single geographical location, the book challenges still dominant chronologies of literary history that emphasize cultural rupture and view the \"Renaissance\" as a sharp break from England's medieval past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert W. Jr. Barrett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268022097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268022099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/20\/2009 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2009 pg. 270","brand":"Robert W. Jr. Barrett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48216476319999,"sku":"9780268022099","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_40e0ee97-5c09-4efa-910c-885fee1c4c58.jpg?v=1771991251","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/against-all-england-robert-w-jr-barrett-9780268022099","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}