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Imagining the Nation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

This volume brings together new work on the image of the nation and the construction of national identity in English literature of the seventeenth century.

The chapters in the collection explore visions of British nationhood in literary works including Michael Drayton and John Seidell's Poly-Olbion and Andrew Marvell's Horatian Ode, shedding new light on topics ranging from debates over territorial waters and the free seas, to the emergence of hyphenated identities, and the perennial problem of the Picts. Concluding with a survey of recent work in British studies and the history of early modern nationalism, this collection highlights issues of British national identity, cohesion, and disintegration that remain undeniably relevant and topical in the twenty-first century

This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal The Seventeenth Century.

Daniel Cattell received his PhD from the University of Exeter, UK, and has been a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded Poly-Olbion Project.

Philip Schwyzer is a Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Exeter, UK; his current projects include forthcoming editions of Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion and the complete works of Humphrey Llwyd.

Imagining the Nation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

Edited by
Daniel Cattell and Philip Schwyzer

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Contents

Daniel Cattell and Philip Schwyzer

Sukanya Dasgupta

Sandra Logan

Philip Schwyzer

Stewart Mottram

Willy Maley

Patrick J. Murray

Guide

The chapters in this book were originally published in The Seventeenth Century, volume 33, issue 4 (October 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Introduction

Visions of Britain
Daniel Cattell and Philip Schwyzer
The Seventeenth Century, volume 33, issue 4 (October 2018) pp. 377-391

Chapter 1

Imagining Britain: reconstructing history ana writing national identity in Englands Heroicall Epistles
Sukanya Dasgiipta
The Seventeenth Century, volume 33, issue 4 (October 2018) pp. 393-409

Chapter 2

Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion: maritime England and the free seas debates
Sandra Logan
The Seventeenth Century, volume 33, issue 4 (October 2018) pp. 411-426

Chapter 3

The age of the Carnbro-Britons: hyphenated British identities in the seventeenth century
Philip Schwyzer
The Seventeenth Century, volume 33, issue 4 (October 2018) pp. 427-439

Chapter 4

The religious geography of Marvells "An Horatian Ode": popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts
Stewart Mottram
The Seventeenth Century, volume 33, issue 4 (October 2018) pp. 441-461

Chapter 5

"Neptune to the Common-wealth of England" (1652): the "Republican Britannia" and the continuity of interests
Willy Maley
The Seventeenth Century, volume 33, issue 4 (October 2018) pp. 463-483

Chapter 6

The archipelagic turn: nationhood, nationalism and early modern studies, 1997-2017
Patrick J. Murray
The Seventeenth Century, volume 33, issue 4 (October 2018) pp. 485-495

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Daniel Cattell University of Exeter, UK.

Sukanya Dasgupta Department of English, Loreto College (University of Calcutta), India.

Sandra Logan Department of English, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.

Willy Maley School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK.

Stewart Mottram School of Arts, University of Hull, UK.

Patrick J. Murray School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK.

PhilipSchwyzer Department of English, University of Exeter, UK.

Daniel Cattell and Philip Schwyzer

ABSTRACT

This introductory essay situates Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), Michael Drayton's vast chorographical and historical poem of England and Wales, in terms of its development as a poetic project, its structural choices, and its reception by early readers. It sets the tension in the text between the local and the national against the backdrop of a more fundamental seventeenth-century shift from national to regional description. By exploring the text's depiction of the ancient Picts, it also considers some of the difficulties that Drayton might have faced, had he managed to extend his poem north to Scotland.

This collection of essays on the image of the nation in seventeenth-century English literature finds its centre of gravity in Poly-Olbion (1612, 1622), a lavish, composite text that includes Michael Drayton's 15,000-line "

Drayton was entering his fiftieth year by the time Part I was published, and his rant could be read usympathetically as that of an embittered cultural stick-in-the-mud, hopelessly out of step with the pace of the changing world around him. Yet that view neglects that Poly-Olbion was simultaneously a culmination and a transformation, "genuine, and first in this kinde", as Drayton himself claimed,

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