Archipelagic identities : literature and identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800

Contents: Introduction; Philip Schwyzer; An uncertain union (a dialogue), David Baker and Willy Maley; Part I Looking for Britain: This pleasant and sceptred isle: insular fantasies of national identity in Anne Dowriche's The French Historie and William Shakespeare's Richard II, Kate Chedgzoy; Whose pastorals? William Browne of Tavistock and the Singing of Britannia, Gillian Wright; Defoe, Scotland and Union, John Kerrigan; Part II Spenser's Islands: Marrying waterways: politicizing and gendering the landscape in Spenser's Faerie Queene River-Marriage Canto, Joan Fitzpatrick; From Irish countries to English counties: state sovereignty and territorial reorganization in early modern Ireland, Swen Voekel; Spenser and the Stuart succession, Andrew Hadfield; Part III Representing the Nation: Provincial identification and the struggle over representation in Thomas Coryat's Crudities (1611), Melanie Ord; The complaint of Caledonia: Scottish identity and the female voice, Murray G.H. Pittock; 'A witty book, but mostly feigned': William Richards' Wallography and perceptions of Wales in later 17th-century England, Michael Roberts; Part IV Immigrants and Emigrants: 'Signes of a Stranger': the English language and the English Nation in the late 16th century, Emma Smith; O Belle Tamise: the development of a Huguenot pastoral mode in Elizabethan England, Simon Mealor; 'Our British land': Anne Bradstreet's Atlantic perspective, Christopher Ivic; Bibliography; Index.