Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford)

England's Insular Imagining

The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland

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Produktbeschreibung

England's Insular Imagining is vital reading for anyone interested in British nationhood. It shows how the English used Geoffrey of Monmouth's mythical 'British History' (1137) first to justify an attempted Scottish conquest, then to make Scotland's nationhood vanish in new literary, legal and cartographic figurations of English sea-sovereignty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9781009253574
• ISBN-10: 1009253573
• Artikelnr.: 67780316

Autorenporträt

Lorna Hutson is Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at Oxford. She is the author of many books including Thomas Nashe in Context, The Usurer's Daughter, The Invention of Suspicion (which won the Roland Bainton Prize), and Circumstantial Shakespeare. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700, which won the Bainton Reference Prize in 2018.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Writing the Forgotten War I: Henry's War, 1542-7
2. Writing the Forgotten War II: Somerset's War, 1547-1550
3. How England Became an Island: The Faerie Queene
4. Scotland sui juris? Scottish Literature and the Marian Constitutional Crisis, 1567-73
5. On the Knees of the Body Politic: Scottish Succession and English Liberties, 1567-1608
6. Scotland Un-kingdomed: English History on Stage
7. Race-Making in the Invention of Britain: The Masque of Blackness
8. Divisions and Kingdoms: Oedipal Britain from Gorboduc to King Lear
Coda: Macbeth. 'Alas, poor country'.