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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hutson, Lorna

Titel

England's insular imagining : the Elizabethan erasure of Scotland

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• Writing the forgotten war I: Henry's War, 1542-7 -- Writing the forgotten war II: Somerset's War, 1547-1550 -- How England became an island : The Faerie Queene -- Scotland sui juris? : Scottish literature and the Marian constitutional crisis, 1567-73 -- On the knees of the body politic : Scottish succession and English liberties, 1567-1608 -- Scotland un-kingdomed : English history on stage -- Race-making in the invention of Britain: The masque of blackness -- Divisions and kingdoms : Oedipal Britain from Gorboduc to King Lear -- Coda : Macbeth: 'alas, poor country'.
• "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 seasovereignty"--