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Writing Britain from the Margins: Scottish, Irish, and Welsh Projects for American Colonization

The 1620s witnessed the publication of a number of prose treatises promoting the settlement of Newfoundland and New Scotland (Nova Scotia) by Scottish, Irish, and Welsh colonists. Through a discussion of figures such as William Alexander, Robert Gordon, Henry Cary, George Calvert, and William Vaughan, this study explores the colonial contexts of early modern formulations of "British" identity. I examine how these texts constructed national and imperial identities from positions of marginality-not only in terms of their advocacy of settlement in the increasingly marginalized region of the Atlantic provinces, but also in relation to their efforts to offset London) centralized control over colonial investment and extend the possibilities offered by colonization to the economic aspirations of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.