Imagining the Nation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367510886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 118 str.

Daniel Cattell; Philip Schwyzer

Opis

This volume brings together new work on the image of the nation and the construction of national identity in English literature of the seventeenth century, highlighting issues of British national identity, cohesion, and disintegration.

Spis treści

Introduction: Visions of Britain
1. Imagining Britain: reconstructing history and writing national identity in Englands Heroicall Epistles
2. Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion: maritime England and the free seas debates
3. The age of the Cambro-Britons: hyphenated British identities in the seventeenth century
4. The religious geography of Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode”: popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts
5. “Neptune to the Common-wealth of England” (1652): the “Republican Britannia” and the continuity of interests
6. The archipelagic turn: nationhood, nationalism and early modern studies, 1997-2017