England's insular imagining : the Elizabethan erasure of Scotland /

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...

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Main Author:	Hutson, Lorna (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2023].
Subjects:	National characteristics, English, in literature. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. National characteristics, Scottish, in literature. Scottish literature > To 1700 > History and criticism. England > In literature. Scotland > In literature. Great Britain > History > Tudors, 1485-1603 > Historiography. Scotland > History > Mary Stuart, 1542-1567 > Historiography.

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	xii, 323 pages, [16] pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-316) and index.
ISBN:	9781009253574 1009253573 9781009253604 1009253603