EAN: 9780241669631

THE BRITANNIAS - ALICE ALBINIA GEBUNDEN

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR  'A dazzlingly brilliant book'
Hannah Dawson  'Fascinating  often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid  imaginative guide '
TLS    The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its
collective cultural psyche.  From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet  Alice Albinia explores
the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography  once known (wrote Pliny) by the collective
term  Britanniae . Sailing over borders  between languages and genres  trespassing through the
past to understand the present  this book knocks the centre out to foreground neglected epics
and subversive voices.  The ancient mythology of islands ruled by women winds through the
literature of the British Isles - from Roman colonial-era reports  to early Irish poetry 
Renaissance drama to Restoration utopias - transcending and subverting the most male-fixated of
ages. The Britannias looks far back into the past for direction and solace  while searching for
new meaning about women's status in the body politic. Boldly upturning established truths about
Britain  it pays homage to the islands' beauty  independence and their suppressed or forgotten
histories.

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