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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... chapters with him to the New World ... and back again to Oxford . The valuable comments and contributions of my examiners , Nigel Smith and Jane Ohlmeyer , did much to help shape the next transplant- ation . A Government of Ireland Post ...
... chapters with him to the New World ... and back again to Oxford . The valuable comments and contributions of my examiners , Nigel Smith and Jane Ohlmeyer , did much to help shape the next transplant- ation . A Government of Ireland Post ...
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... chapters which follow , a clear picture emerges of how Spenser's View continued to influence both English policy and writing on Ireland across the century , and of how this second generation of Spenserian tracts and histories became ...
... chapters which follow , a clear picture emerges of how Spenser's View continued to influence both English policy and writing on Ireland across the century , and of how this second generation of Spenserian tracts and histories became ...
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... Chapter Two . 10 M. Ó Riordan , " " Political " Poems in the Mid Seventeenth Century Crisis ' , in Ohlmeyer ( ed . ) , IIO , pp . 112-27 ( 113fn ) . 11 See , for example , C. O'Rahilly ( ed . ) , Five Seventeenth - century Political ...
... Chapter Two . 10 M. Ó Riordan , " " Political " Poems in the Mid Seventeenth Century Crisis ' , in Ohlmeyer ( ed . ) , IIO , pp . 112-27 ( 113fn ) . 11 See , for example , C. O'Rahilly ( ed . ) , Five Seventeenth - century Political ...
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... Chapters Three and Five . 29 R. Mulholland Gilbert , Life of Sir John T. Gilbert ( London , 1905 ) , p . 273. For a selection of Gardiner's letters to Gilbert , see ibid . , pp . 270-72 . Gardiner enlisted Gilbert for many of the Irish ...
... Chapters Three and Five . 29 R. Mulholland Gilbert , Life of Sir John T. Gilbert ( London , 1905 ) , p . 273. For a selection of Gardiner's letters to Gilbert , see ibid . , pp . 270-72 . Gardiner enlisted Gilbert for many of the Irish ...
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... Chapter Five below . 33 Some had conformed to Protestantism , notably Thomas , Earl of Ormond , cousin to Elizabeth I. governing elite with considerable lobbying and bargaining power in London 14 Between Spenser and Swift.
... Chapter Five below . 33 Some had conformed to Protestantism , notably Thomas , Earl of Ormond , cousin to Elizabeth I. governing elite with considerable lobbying and bargaining power in London 14 Between Spenser and Swift.
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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