Table of Contents

Introduction: Empire and this `Englyshe or Bryttyshe nacyon'
England's Empire Apart: The Entry of Charles V and Henry VIII (1522)
Royal Supremacy and the Rhetoric of Empire: Anne Boleyn's 1533 Entry
Richard Morison: Rebellion and the Rhetoric of Nationhood
Enter England: John Bale's King Johan
Commonwealth in Crisis: Nicholas Udall's Respublica
Conclusion: William Lightfoot and the Legacy of England's Empire Apart
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

An erudite and informative study that makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of early Tudor literature.
*REFORMATION & RENAISSANCE REVIEW*

A thorough historical study [with] many absorbing details.
*STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE*

Mottram's book performs a useful service in calling our attention to the ways the English nation was an intelligible prospect in the mid-Tudor period: that alongside colonial machinations were insular ones as well.
*JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES*

No one interested in the forms and fictions of nationhood in English Renaissance literature can overlook this book. Students of empire and nation-building will find much to ponder here, and those interested in ideas of commonwealth and republic will also discover early evidence of an interest in alternative forms of government after empire and on the eve of empire, that is, in the wake of Rome and on the threshold of an expanding Britain, when postcolonial England first found its feet and forged its identity.
*REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES*