{"product_id":"englands-insular-imagining-the-elizabethan-erasure-of-scotland-hardback-9781009253574","title":"England's Insular Imagining; The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland (Hardback) 9781009253574","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEngland's Insular Imagining\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur image of England as island nation is the legacy of the Elizabethan literary erasure of Scotland.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLorna Hutson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009253574, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.67 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'although 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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHow have the English conceived of Scotland? Lorna Hutson's 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 Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Henry V and King Lear, Plowden's theory of the King's Two Bodies, Camden's Britannia, and the race-making in Jonson's Masque of Blackness are all implicated in England's jurisdictional claim and refusal to acknowledge Scotland as sovereign nation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Writing the Forgotten War I: Henry's War, 1542-7\u003cbr\u003e 2. Writing the Forgotten War II: Somerset's War, 1547-1550\u003cbr\u003e 3. How England Became an Island: The Faerie Queene\u003cbr\u003e 4. Scotland sui juris? Scottish Literature and the Marian Constitutional Crisis, 1567-73\u003cbr\u003e 5. On the Knees of the Body Politic: Scottish Succession and English Liberties, 1567-1608\u003cbr\u003e 6. Scotland Un-kingdomed: English History on Stage\u003cbr\u003e 7. Race-Making in the Invention of Britain: The Masque of Blackness\u003cbr\u003e 8. Divisions and Kingdoms: Oedipal Britain from Gorboduc to King Lear\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Macbeth. 'Alas, poor country'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52462978629912,"sku":"9781009253574","price":28.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009253574i.jpg?v=1785544155","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/englands-insular-imagining-the-elizabethan-erasure-of-scotland-hardback-9781009253574","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}