‘Where’s yer Wullie Shakespeare noo?’
Michael Dobson: 17th-century literary culture, 11 September 2008
Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707
by John Kerrigan.
Oxford, 599 pp., March 2008,978 0 19 818384 6 Show More
by John Kerrigan.
Oxford, 599 pp., March 2008,
“... political prehistory of the puzzles in national and cultural identity that haunted my childhood summers, Archipelagic English can’t be beaten. It’s particularly striking to learn that one of the first consequences of the official invention of Britain was the development of a souvenir linen industry. Having helped push through the Act of Union, and ... ”