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Sion and Elizium : national identity, religion and allegiance in Anthony Copley's 'A Fig for Fortune'
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Underwood, Lucy (2018) Sion and Elizium : national identity, religion and allegiance in Anthony Copley's 'A Fig for Fortune'. Renaissance and Reformation, 41 (2). pp. 65-96. ISSN 0034-429X.
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Abstract
This article uses Anthony Copley’s poem A Fig for Fortune (1596) to examine Elizabethan constructions of national identity. Acknowledging that religious and national identities were symbiotic in the Reformation era, it argues that the interdependency of Protestant and Catholic narratives of “nationhood” must be appreciated. Analysis of Copley’s text engages with previous critiques, including those of Clare Reid, Alison Shell, and Susannah Monta, in order to propose a more coherent interpretation of Copley’s engagement with Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Copley did not merely defend Catholics as loyal subjects; he moved beyond debates about loyalty to reconsider ideas of nation, England, and Englishness more broadly, challenging the premises as well as the conclusions of Protestant statesmen and writers.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Copley, Anthony, 1567-1607?, English poetry -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism, National characteristics, English -- In literature | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Renaissance and Reformation | ||||||
Publisher: | University of Toronto | ||||||
ISSN: | 0034-429X | ||||||
Official Date: | 21 June 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 41 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 65-96 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | © 1964-2019 Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance; the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society; the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium; and The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this site is prohibited. | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance; the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society; the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium; and The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Vi, The Author | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 December 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 December 2019 | ||||||
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