England's 'island nationhood?' with Professor Lorna Hutson
Schedule
Thu Feb 19 2026 at 08:00 am to 09:00 am
UTC+11:00Location
Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2600 | Canberra, CT
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How did early modern legal and poetic texts conjure an Anglo-British sea-empire when no ‘Great Britain’ existed?Professor Lorna Hutson considers poets John Milton and Edmund Spenser, as well as English cartographers and lawyers, in the context of an international European concern with whether the seas should be ‘common’ to all nations.
The talk asks how we might rethink Milton’s poetics of English freedom in the context of Anglo-imperial claims over British coastal waters, revealing the history we suppress when we speak of England in this period as an ‘island nation’.
Find out more and book here: https://www.library.gov.au/whats-on/events/englands-island-nationhood-professor-lorna-hutson
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