Early Modern Transatlantic Encounters and the Formation of English National Identity

Elizabeth Sauer is Distinguished Professor at Brock University; Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of America; and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her previous Cambridge University Press publications include the edited collection Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714 (2019), Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood (2014), and The New Milton Criticism (co-edited with Peter C. Herman, 2012).

• Introduction: crosscurrents; 1. Plus ultra: Great Britain, Ireland, and new found lands; 2. Revisiting the city upon a hill: puritan migrants, English exceptionalism, and Israel redivivus; 3. The tongues, arts, and arguments of the contact zone; 4. Bloodlines and transatlantic relations; 5. Milton's new worlds; 6. Holy experiments and the Anglo-American literary landscape; Coda: the book abroad.

'Elizabeth Sauer's Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood (CUP, 2014) established her as a distinguished scholar of the representation of nationhood in early modern literature. In this brilliant successor, her focus is on English national consciousness and identity formation, seen through the prism of encounters with America. This book is a triumph of scholarship.' Gordon Campbell, Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester