Jan Martin EschbachMaking Britannia – Das Epische Erzählen vom Werden eines Volkes

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Rosemary Sutcliff historic novels count among the greatest children’s books of our time. Her best-selling novels The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers have helped to shape an entire generation’s perception of British history. Making Britannia is an attempt to explain the unbroken success of these books. It sheds light on Rosemary Sutcliff’s biography and shows how her love for the works of Rudyard Kipling influenced her own writing. It also describes the coming of age of an author whose own physical disabilities enabled her to develop a pronounced understanding for human weaknesses and challenges. Nevertheless, Rosemary Sutcliff’s novels are also the product of their own time, a time in which Great Britain no longer played a leading part in world affairs.

In Rosemary Sutcliff’s novels, Romans, Celts and Saxons gradually become Britons. Making Britannia focuses on the author’s approach by examining her research and the methods which enabled her to give her works the historic authenticity which makes them so highly readable. It examines how the novels have been received by readers all over the world, and shows how they have determined the works of contemporary authors. Making Britannia describes Rosemary Sutcliff’s personal idea of history and continuity, and attempts to answer the question which concept of history she tried to convey in her books.

Making Britannia examines Sutcliff’s narrative technique and style, and in how far these were determined by other writers. It approaches the protagonists of her novels and the characters surrounding them. Imagery, conflict and literary leitmotifs are analysed and discussed accordingly. In the process it becomes perfectly clear that Rosemary Sutcliff’s protagonists are human beings not so very different from us in their hopes, worries, needs and conflicts. It is with these characters that Sutcliff succeeds so well in bringing a great era of European history to life.

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