Subject of Britain, 1603 25 (eBook)

Christopher Ivic (Autor)

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2020
256 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5269-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book reinterprets early seventeenth-century texts by situating them within the context of Jacobean writing on Britain and Britishness. Central to its argument are ideas about nationhood, identity and community that were occasioned by the accession of a Scottish king to England's throne, contested during the Anglo-Scottish Union debates.

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The subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain prompted serious reflection on questions of nationhood. This book traces writing on Britain and Britishness in succession literature, panegyric, Union tracts and treatises, play-texts and atlases. Focusing on texts printed in London and Edinburgh, as well as manuscript material that circulated within and across Britain and Ireland, this book sheds valuable light on texts in relation to the wider geopolitical context that informed their production. Combining literary criticism with political analysis and book history, The subject of Britain offers a fresh approach to a significant moment in British history, and will appeal to postgraduates and undergraduates of early modern British literary history. -- .

Autor

Christopher Ivic is Senior Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University

Inhalt

Introduction: accession, union, nationhood
1 ‘Englands King is comming to be Croun’d’: English responses to the accession of King James VI and I
2 ‘This mighty worke of vnion’: imagining union in early Jacobean panegyric
3 ‘But when this island shall be made Britain’: Hume, Bacon, Britain and Britishness
4 ‘Our downfall Birthdome’: reimagining nationhood in Macbeth
5 Conclusion: the Jacobean writing of Britain
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Manchester University Press
• Zusatzinfo: 2 black & white illustrations
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Britain • Britishness • Identity • King James I • King James VI • Memory • Nation • Panegyric • print and manuscript culture • subjects • Union
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-5269-X / 152615269X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-5269-5 / 9781526152695