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Imagining the Nation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature book cover

1st Edition

Imagining the Nation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

Edited By Daniel Cattell, Philip Schwyzer Copyright 2020
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge
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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. The chapters in the collection explore visions of British nationhood in literary works including Michael Drayton and John Selden’s Poly-Olbion and Andrew Marvell’s Horatian Ode, shedding new light on topics ranging from debates over... Read more

Introduction: Visions of Britain

Daniel Cattell and Philip Schwyzer

1. Imagining Britain: reconstructing history and writing national identity in Englands Heroicall Epistles

Sukanya Dasgupta

2. Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion: maritime England and the free seas debates

Sandra Logan

3. The age of the Cambro-Britons: hyphenated British identities in the seventeenth century

Philip Schwyzer

4. The religious geography of Marvell’s "An Horatian Ode": popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts

Stewart Mottram

5. "Neptune to the Common-wealth of England" (1652): the "Republican Britannia" and the continuity of interests

Willy Maley

6. The archipelagic turn: nationhood, nationalism and early modern studies, 1997-2017

Patrick J. Murray

Biography

Daniel Cattell received his PhD from the University of Exeter, UK, and has been a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded Poly-Olbion Project.

Philip Schwyzer is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Exeter, UK; his current projects include forthcoming editions of Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion and the complete works of Humphrey Llwyd.

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