Our image of England as island nation is the legacy of the Elizabethan literary erasure of Scotland.

This book maps the seascape borders of Australia's insular imagination. It explores how the boundaries and contours of the nation were made and remade in the fi

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Roland to Caxton.

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"Late medieval English Arthurian romance has broad cultural ambitions, offering a fantasy of insular union as an "imagined cimmunity" of British sovereignty. th