{"product_id":"sale-englands-insular-imagining","title":"SALE England's Insular Imagining","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is unused and unread. It has some cosmetic imperfections such as significant scuffing, tearing and creasing. No further discounts. It is stamped 'damaged'. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow have the English conceived of Scotland?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLorna 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHutson 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44490655170799,"sku":"9781009253574","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0475\/2031\/7597\/files\/9781009253574i.jpg?v=1707308687","url":"https:\/\/www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk\/products\/sale-englands-insular-imagining","provider":"Cambridge University Press Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}