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Klaus Reichert: "Ich bin ich". Auftritte neuer Formen des Bösen in der Frühen Neuzeit

Victoria von Fleming: Die böse Schöne. Eine Weiblichkeitskonstruktion in Literatur und bildender Kunst in der Frühneuzeit Italiens

Simon Huber, Christian Schmitt, Bettina Mathes: Nation und Nationalismus: Modelle - Geschichte - Probleme

Christian Schmitt: Writing the Nation in Early Modern England: The Case of Rhetoric and Poetics

Focusing on a range of sixteenth and early seventeenth century English treatises on rhetoric and poetics, this essay uses the theoretical frameworks provided by Benedict Anderson and Homi K. Bhabha (the nation as narration, as an imagined and historically contingent draft of human society) in order to read the treatises of Wilson, Puttenham et al. in view of their contributions to the writing of England. While the concept of nationality is often taken for granted as an influential factor in early modern writing, the nature and actual effects of its influence are seldom analyzed. I want to point out how the national discourse functions both as underlying structure to the texts and as the texts' vanishing point, as the discourse which the authors need to imagine in order for their treatises to make sense in their particular historical contexts. In 1553, Wilson is tentatively in search for a national public as addressees for his Arte of Rhetorique, a public which is not yet existent. Fifty years later, Daniel, in the Defence of Ryme, explicitly links what appears to be a purely literary problem with national concerns. In the meantime, the debates around language and literature are an important element in the struggle for a new cultural order within national delimitations.

Karin Wilhelm: Locating the Individual. Filarete's Treatise on Architecture 1464