Imagining the Nation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

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 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.

• Introduction: Visions of Britain1. Imagining Britain: reconstructing history and writing national identity in Englands Heroicall Epistles2. Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion: maritime England and the free seas debates3. The age of the Cambro-Britons: hyphenated British identities in the seventeenth century4. The religious geography of Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode”: popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts 5. “Neptune to the Common-wealth of England” (1652): the “Republican Britannia” and the continuity of interests6. The archipelagic turn: nationhood, nationalism and early modern studies, 1997-2017