Scott Oldenburg

Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England Scott Oldenburg

Commendation Quotes:"Alien Albion is a fascinating and significant new study of the complicated cultural representation of the nation in early modern England. Scott Oldenburg explores the faultline opened up by mass immigration in the late sixteenth century and asks whether the influx of diverse peoples made the English more xenophobic or more tolerant. The book will inspire all readers interested in questions of identity and breathes new life into debates about early modern nationality." - Andrew Hadfield, School of English, University of SussexCommendation Quotes:"This nuanced, timely, and readable investigation sheds new light on the integration of European immigrants, particularly artisans, into early modern England." - Sujata Iyengar, Department of English, University of GeorgiaCommendation Quotes: Alien Albion is a fascinating and significant new study of the complicated cultural representation ofthe nationin early modern England. Scott Oldenburg explores the faultline opened up by mass immigration in the late sixteenth century and asks whether the influx of diverse peoples made the English more xenophobic or more tolerant. The book willinspire all readers interestedin questions of identity and breathes new life into debates about early modern nationality. - Andrew Hadfield, School of English, University of Sussex"Commendation Quotes: This nuanced, timely, and readable investigationsheds new light onthe integration ofEuropeanimmigrants, particularly artisans, into early modernEngland. - Sujata Iyengar, Department of English, University of Georgia"Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Forms of Multiculturalism in Early Modern EnglandI. Sectarian InclusivityChapter 1. From the Dutch Acrobat to Hance Beerpot: Multicultural Mid-Tudor England. Chapter 2. The Rhetoric of Religious Refuge Under Elizabeth III. Provincial Globalism Chapter 3. Artisanal Tolerance: The Case of Thomas DeloneyChapter 4. Language and Labor in Thomas Dekker s Provincial GlobalismIII. Worldly Domesticity Chapter 5. The Jumbled City: The Dutch Courtesan and Englishmen for My MoneyChapter 6. Shakespeare, the ForeignerConclusion: The Return of Hans Beer-PotBibliography"Publisher Marketing: Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Oldenburg uncovers how immigrants to England forged ties with their English hosts and how those relationships were reflected in literature that imagined inclusive, multicultural communities. Through discussions of civic pageantry, the plays of dramatists including William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Middleton, the poetry of Anne Dowriche, and the prose of Thomas Deloney, Alien Albion challenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class, and local identities in the early modern era. Review Citations:

Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1314 (EAN 9781442647190, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Oldenburg, Scott Scott Oldenburg is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Tulane University.