Between Spenser and Swift: English Writing in Seventeenth-Century IrelandWhile recent studies of Edmund Spenser and Jonathan Swift have firmly relocated both writers in their Irish as well as their English context, English writing in Ireland between these monolithic figures has been largely neglected. This study explores in detail the literary territory between Spenser and Swift. Examining a range of texts, from fragments to sophisticated publications such as economic improvement manuals, histories, plays, romances and poems, Deana Rankin demonstrates how writers in Ireland articulated the transition from soldier to settler across this century of war and political turmoil. She illuminates both centre and periphery by revealing for the first time the richness of English writing in Ireland during the period and its sustained engagement with canonical English literature, including Shakespeare, Sidney and Milton. Historians and literary scholars will find much to discover in this significant contribution to early modern British studies. |
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... Bellings 191 6 ' The Paper Warre you must expect to be assaulted with ' : English histories of Ireland , 1660-89 230 Conclusion : from Spenser to Swift 272 Index 284 Illustrations I The English Irish Souldier ... who had rather vii.
... Bellings 191 6 ' The Paper Warre you must expect to be assaulted with ' : English histories of Ireland , 1660-89 230 Conclusion : from Spenser to Swift 272 Index 284 Illustrations I The English Irish Souldier ... who had rather vii.
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... Bellings , secretary to the Catholic Confederation.22 Perhaps most surprising is the absence of Ireland from the increasing number of volumes published on Catholicism in England . In the course of this study it will become clear that in ...
... Bellings , secretary to the Catholic Confederation.22 Perhaps most surprising is the absence of Ireland from the increasing number of volumes published on Catholicism in England . In the course of this study it will become clear that in ...
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... Bellings's ' History of the Confederation'.2 If both texts seem at times almost buried under the weight of Gilbert's additional documentation , this is , his biographer - wife , the Catholic nov- elist Rosa Mulholland Gilbert noted ...
... Bellings's ' History of the Confederation'.2 If both texts seem at times almost buried under the weight of Gilbert's additional documentation , this is , his biographer - wife , the Catholic nov- elist Rosa Mulholland Gilbert noted ...
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... Bellings writes in his History of the Confederation ( com- posed 1673-74 ) of the ' four distinct kind of people ' in Ireland , by which he means Native or Old Irish , Old English , New English and Cromwel- lians.32 Bellings was , with ...
... Bellings writes in his History of the Confederation ( com- posed 1673-74 ) of the ' four distinct kind of people ' in Ireland , by which he means Native or Old Irish , Old English , New English and Cromwel- lians.32 Bellings was , with ...
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... Bellings's categories are evident . As Spenser was only too well aware , and as the labyrinthine family trees of many confederates demonstrate , more than four hundred years of intermarriage and commerce had thoroughly melded these two ...
... Bellings's categories are evident . As Spenser was only too well aware , and as the labyrinthine family trees of many confederates demonstrate , more than four hundred years of intermarriage and commerce had thoroughly melded these two ...
Contents
Between soldier and settler the English parliamentary writing of Ireland | 31 |
Writing the Irish subject 163341 | 75 |
An Aphorismical Discovery of Treasonable Faction the search for citizenship 164252 | 117 |
Hannibal in Capua | 149 |
Relating the Truth of Things Past | 157 |
Staging resolution Restoration romance and the Dublin theatre | 159 |
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