Fashioning England and the English

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Engendering a Sense of Englishness: The Use of the Mother Tongue in Osbern Bokenham’s “Vita Sanctae Margaretae”

Chapter 3 Tricking Sir George into Marriage: The Utopian Moral Reform of the English Commonwealth in Thomas Deloney’s Jack of Newbury

Chapter 4 Shakespeare’s Style, Shakespeare’s England

Chapter 5 Gendering the Archipelago: Nation, State and Empire in the Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies

Chapter 6 By Deeds of Stealth: English Books Abroad in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

Chapter 7 Sons of Nature: The Bourgeois Pursuit of Happiness in the Swiss Alps and Wordsworth’s Lake District

Chapter 8 Wordsworth Un-Englished

Chapter 9 “To Be a True Citizen of Highbury”: Language and National Identity in Jane Austen’s Emma (1816)

Chapter 11 English Visions: The Work of Jacquetta Hawkes Priestley

Chapter 12 Olivier’s Technicolor England: Capturing the Nation Through the Battlefields of Henry V (1944) and Richard III (1955)