Literary Imagination and the Making of the English Empire/Nation

In His paper “Writing Empire and Nation,” Richard Helgerson argues that England’s rise as an imperial power in the 16th and 17th centuries had significant cultural and literary ramifications. The efforts to establish England’s status as a great empire necessitated the development of a robust literary tradition on par with the achievements of ancient Rome, […]

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