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Archipelagic English: Literature, History, And Politics 1603-1707 By John Kerrigan

Posted at 4:07PM Wednesday 19 Mar 2008

Archipelagic English: Literature, History,
And Politics 1603-1707 By John Kerrigan
ISBN: 9780198183846

If you print the map of the British Isles sideways, as on the cover of John Kerrigan's book, you get Britannia on her back with all her ragged western extremities pointing upwards. The unfamiliar image makes you see the islands as an archipelago, and this serves to illustrate Kerrigan's innovative way of reading the literature of these islands in the 17th century.

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