Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction: Visions of Britain1. Imagining Britain: reconstructing history and writing national identity in Englands Heroicall Epistles2. Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion: maritime England and the free seas debates3. The age of the Cambro-Britons: hyphenated British identities in the seventeenth century4. 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 interests6. The archipelagic turn: nationhood, nationalism and early modern studies, 1997-2017