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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... Contemporary History Gilbert ( ed . ) , Irish Confederation HJ HWJ IHS Knowler MacCuarta ( ed . ) , Ulster 1641 Milton , Works Norbrook , WER Ohlmeyer ( ed . ) , IIO Calendar of State Papers , Ireland E. R. McClintock Dix , Catalogue of ...
... Contemporary History Gilbert ( ed . ) , Irish Confederation HJ HWJ IHS Knowler MacCuarta ( ed . ) , Ulster 1641 Milton , Works Norbrook , WER Ohlmeyer ( ed . ) , IIO Calendar of State Papers , Ireland E. R. McClintock Dix , Catalogue of ...
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... contemporary writers to articulate their version of events . In the genre of Irish History , where there has long been recognition – even celebration - of the fact that writing and the making of history go together , that the literary ...
... contemporary writers to articulate their version of events . In the genre of Irish History , where there has long been recognition – even celebration - of the fact that writing and the making of history go together , that the literary ...
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... contemporary . On the literary shaping of such histories , see H. White , Metahistory : The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth - century Europe ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1973 ) . R. F. Foster's ' History and the ...
... contemporary . On the literary shaping of such histories , see H. White , Metahistory : The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth - century Europe ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1973 ) . R. F. Foster's ' History and the ...
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... contemporary accounts of the Confederation : the anonymous ' Aphorismical Discovery of Trea- sonable Faction ' and Richard Bellings's ' History of the Confederation'.2 If both texts seem at times almost buried under the weight of ...
... contemporary accounts of the Confederation : the anonymous ' Aphorismical Discovery of Trea- sonable Faction ' and Richard Bellings's ' History of the Confederation'.2 If both texts seem at times almost buried under the weight of ...
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... contemporary eyewitness account , to represent the narrative of personal experience as the most credible form of historical documentation . Cer- tainly the seventeenth century was revived by the late nineteenth century in a selective ...
... contemporary eyewitness account , to represent the narrative of personal experience as the most credible form of historical documentation . Cer- tainly the seventeenth century was revived by the late nineteenth century in a selective ...
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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