Nation and nurture in seventeenth-century English literature / Rachel Trubowitz.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

viii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

1st ed.

Nursing Mothers and National Identity -- Nature, Nurture and the Changing "Character" of Englishness: A Pitiless Mother, Hic Mulier, and Macbeth -- Nursing Fathers and National Identity: James I, Charles I, Cromwell and Milton -- Old Fathers and New Mothers: Supersession and the "unity of spirit" in Paradise Lost -- "I was his nursling once": Internationalism and "nurture holy" in Samson Agonistes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-246) and index.