Subject of Britain, 160325

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Christopher Ivic is Senior Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Ivic
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780719088704
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8870-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Manchester University Press
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories