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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... Elizabethan English histories of Ireland , including Spenser's View , its first appearance in print . It closes in 1689 , when James II arrived in Ireland , at the invitation of Tyrconnell and the Irish parliament , to stage a final ...
... Elizabethan English histories of Ireland , including Spenser's View , its first appearance in print . It closes in 1689 , when James II arrived in Ireland , at the invitation of Tyrconnell and the Irish parliament , to stage a final ...
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... Elizabethan Wars ; the Old English attempt to hold on to their vestiges of land and power , always subject to erosion by the English administration ; the New English , key beneficiaries of the Eliza- bethan campaigns , seek to further ...
... Elizabethan Wars ; the Old English attempt to hold on to their vestiges of land and power , always subject to erosion by the English administration ; the New English , key beneficiaries of the Eliza- bethan campaigns , seek to further ...
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... Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2002 ) . See Hadfield and Maley's amusing academic campaign strategy , ' A View of the Present State of Spenser Studies : Dialogue - wise ' , in J ...
... Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2002 ) . See Hadfield and Maley's amusing academic campaign strategy , ' A View of the Present State of Spenser Studies : Dialogue - wise ' , in J ...
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... Elizabethan of tenets , that the Irish were , by nature , untamable . Her project was supported by Froude who , in a forthright preface , trumpeted Hickson's unique qualifications for the task : ' She has no English prejudices , she is ...
... Elizabethan of tenets , that the Irish were , by nature , untamable . Her project was supported by Froude who , in a forthright preface , trumpeted Hickson's unique qualifications for the task : ' She has no English prejudices , she is ...
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... Elizabethan wars of the late sixteenth century , culminating in their defeat at Kinsale in 1601 , they still maintained an important presence in seventeenth - century Ireland , and , crucially , exer- cised considerable influence ...
... Elizabethan wars of the late sixteenth century , culminating in their defeat at Kinsale in 1601 , they still maintained an important presence in seventeenth - century Ireland , and , crucially , exer- cised considerable influence ...
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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