{"product_id":"the-subject-of-britain-1603-25-paperback","title":"The Subject of Britain, 1603-25 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher IVIC\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe subject of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain prompted serious reflection on questions of nationhood. This book traces writing on Britain and Britishness in succession literature, panegyric, Union tracts and treatises, play-texts and atlases. Focusing on texts printed in London and Edinburgh, as well as manuscript material that circulated within and across Britain and Ireland, this book sheds valuable light on texts in relation to the wider geopolitical context that informed their production. Combining literary criticism with political analysis and book history, \u003ci\u003eThe subject of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh approach to a significant moment in British history, and will appeal to postgraduates and undergraduates of early modern British literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe subject of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e reads key early-seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Daniel, Drayton, Hume, Jonson, Shakespeare and Speed within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain prompted serious reflection on questions of nationhood and national sovereignty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book traces writing on Britain and Britishness in a variety of discursive forms: succession literature, panegyric, Union tracts and treatises, play-texts and atlases and histories. Attending to the emergence of new ideologies and new ways of thinking about collective identities, \u003ci\u003eThe subject of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to advance knowledge by foregrounding instances of fruitful cultural production in this period. Bacon's and Hume's pronouncements on the common ancestry, the cultural proximity of Britain's inhabitants, for instance, bear witness to Jacobean imaginings of peoples and nations joining together, however tenuously. Focusing on texts printed not only in London but also in Edinburgh, as well as manuscript material that circulated within and across Britain and Ireland, this book sheds valuable light on literary and extra-literary texts in relation to the wider British and Irish context that informed, indeed enabled, their production. By combining the historical study of literary and non-literary texts with the history of political thought and the history of the book broadly defined, this book offers a fresh approach to a signal moment in British history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Given this interdisciplinary nature, it will appeal to early modern British literary historians and undergraduates and postgraduates.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Ivic is Senior Lecturer in English at Bath Spa University\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 03, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54053081022771,"sku":"9781526191137","price":70.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/nVwoh9ATNn9781526191137.webp?v=1789017382","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-subject-of-britain-1603-25-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}