The Culture of Cloth in Early Modern England: Textual Constructions of a National Identity

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Contents: Introduction: ancient, famous and decayed: the culture of cloth in early modern England Part 1 Resistance in the Flock: Labor Rebellion in Pastoral Poetry and Prose Romance: Pasture and pastoral: sheep, anti-enclosure literature, and Sidney's seditious peasants Clothworkers and social protest: the case of Thomas Deloney. Part 2 The Circulation of Subjectivity in the Cloth Trade: 'Vente for our English clothes': promoting early New World expansion Treasonous textiles: foreign cloth and the construction of Englishness. Part 3 Staging the Cloth Crisis: The fleecing of England, or the drama of corrupt drapers: Thomas Middleton's Michaelmas Term Politics on parade: the Cockayne project and Anthony Munday's civic pageants for the Drapers Bibliography Index.

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