Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE England's Insular Imagining by Lorna Hutson Englands Insular Imagining is vital reading for anyone interested in British nationhood. It shows how the English used Geoffrey of Monmouths mythical British History (1137) first to justify an attempted Scottish conquest, then to make Scotlands nationhood vanish in new literary, legal and cartographic figurations of English sea-sovereignty. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description How have the English conceived of Scotland? Lorna Hutsons book is an essential intervention in the contested narrative of British nationhood. It argues that England deployed a mythical British History in pursuing dominion over its northern neighbour: initially through waging war, and then striving to make the very idea of Scotland vanish in new figurations of sea-sovereignty. The author explores English attempts at conquest in the 1540s, revealing how justifications of overlordship mutated into literary, legal and cartographic ploys to erase Scotland-as-kingdom. Maps, treatises and military propaganda are no less imaginative in their eradicative strategies than river poetry, chorography, allegory, epic, tragedies, history plays and masques. Hutson shows how Spensers Faerie Queene, Shakespeares Henry V and King Lear, Plowdens theory of the Kings Two Bodies, Camdens Britannia, and the race-making in Jonsons Masque of Blackness are all implicated in Englands jurisdictional claim and refusal to acknowledge Scotland as sovereign nation. Author Biography Lorna Hutson is Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at Oxford. She is the author of many books including Thomas Nashe in Context, The Usurers Daughter, The Invention of Suspicion (which won the Roland Bainton Prize), and Circumstantial Shakespeare. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700, which won the Bainton Reference Prize in 2018. Table of Contents Introduction; 1. Writing the Forgotten War I: Henrys War, 1542-7; 2. Writing the Forgotten War II: Somersets War, 1547-1550; 3. How England Became an Island: The Faerie Queene; 4. Scotland sui juris? Scottish Literature and the Marian Constitutional Crisis, 1567-73; 5. On the Knees of the Body Politic: Scottish Succession and English Liberties, 1567-1608; 6. Scotland Un-kingdomed: English History on Stage; 7. Race-Making in the Invention of Britain: The Masque of Blackness; 8. Divisions and Kingdoms: Oedipal Britain from Gorboduc to King Lear; Coda: Macbeth. Alas, poor country. Review This is, quite simply, a superb book. Ranging across a wide variety of sources - legal documents, neo-Latin, visual arts, cartography, poetry, prose, and drama - it does urgent and necessary work, anatomising the fiction of Englands depiction as an island nation and addressing the neglect of Scotland in accounts of English nationhood, an occlusion which Hutson convincingly traces to the persistent legacy of Tudor propagandists. Cathy Shrank, Professor of English, University of SheffieldLorna Hutsons brilliant book demonstrates how Elizabethan writers actively marginalized Scotland in the service of an Anglo-imperial view of English insularity. As Hutson shows, the trope of England as an island nation, usually taken to be a mere geographic incoherence, is integral to an ideological project designed to diminish Scotland. Featuring incisive analyses of paintings, maps, chronicle histories and literary texts by Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and others, Englands Insular Imagining will transform the ways in which scholars think about both Anglo-Scottish relations and the formation of English national identity in the early modern period. Garrett Sullivan, Liberal Arts Professor of English, The Pennsylvania State UniversityThis powerfully innovative book is an astonishing achievement. It transforms our understanding of early modern literature by recovering and precisely explicating the history of invasion and occlusion that characterises Englands relationship with Scotland from the 1540s to the 1600s. Anyone interested in race, ethnicity and nationhood, and the persistence of Scottish cultural and political identity, will learn from its many insights. Drawing on a huge range of sources, from medieval chronicle and Tudor polemic through battlefield reports, Lorna Hutson gives us fresh, authoritative readings of such canonical works as The Faerie Queene, Henry V, King Lear and Macbeth. John Kerrigan, Professor of English, St Johns College, CambridgeIn the lengthening shadow of Brexit, this exciting book is as timely as it is innovative for the politics of major Elizabethan writing. Turning from static ideology to active imagining, Hutson shows how authors built the strange conceptual space of the sceptred isle by erasing the inconvenient reality of Scotland. A must read for anyone navigating the currents of literary imagination, sovereignty, insularity, and the politics of boundaries. Gordon Teskey, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard UniversityOnce Hutson has pointed it out, the absence of Scotland in Tudor culture is, paradoxically, unmissable. This radical reassessment shows with lucid delicacy how literature was requisitioned in service of a wobbly concept of English insularity. Shakespeares famous this sceptred isle turns out to be less a specific rhetorical anomaly and more a central statement of ideological erasure. Emma Smith, Hertford College, University of OxfordIn this masterful new literary history of English imperialism, Lorna Hutson trains her keen eye on the obscured histories of Tudor wars of conquest in Scotland and claims of English overlordship. Her astute unpacking of the rhetorical strategies of English imaginative work have resonance beyond Anglo-Scottish relations. This important book recovers Scotland as a forgotten early case of English imperialism that would later expand across the globe. Su Fang Ng, Professor of English, Virginia TechA brilliant, subtle work. As the first scholar to fully understand the importance of the English campaigns against Scotland in the sixteenth century, Lorna Hutson transforms our understanding of early modern British nationhood. Her book offers a set of revelatory readings of works by Spenser, Jonson, and Shakespeare, whose plays and poems are newly understood as being shaped not just by Scottish politics but also by the English states efforts to imagine itself as an island nation, in defiance of geography. Bart Van Es, author of The Cut Out Girl (winner of the 2018 Costa Book of the Year) and Professor of English Literature, St Catherines College, Oxford… a most magnificent constitutional and literary history … Joyce McMillan, The ScotsmanThis book will incite arguments, breed scholarship, beget articles and enrich our understanding of a period we thought we knew well… Hutson has not just laid the groundwork for the next generation of critics; she has set the bar high for future interdisciplinary work in this field. Willy Maley, TLSThis well-researched, well-written, and lavishly illustrated work opens new avenues of investigation into the entanglement and interactions of the peoples and nations of the British Isles. … Highly recommended. S. J. Stillwell Jr, CHOICEalthough Hutson has not managed singlehandedly to pull Scotland out of Great Britain, she has put its geopolitical situation into a new perspective. John Kerrigan, London Review of Books Promotional Our image of England as island nation is the legacy of the Elizabethan literary erasure of Scotland. Details ISBN1009253573 Author Lorna Hutson Pages 320 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781009253574 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-09-30 NZ Release Date 2023-09-30 ISBN-10 1009253573 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Audience General DEWEY 820.935841 Publication Date 2023-11-09 UK Release Date 2023-11-09 Alternative 9781009253598 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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