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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... battle of Newark , too late to be of service to the king , Charles's Lord Lieutenant in Ireland , James Butler , first Duke of Ormond , had finally signed a peace treaty with the royalist Catholic Confederation . For the first time ...
... battle of Newark , too late to be of service to the king , Charles's Lord Lieutenant in Ireland , James Butler , first Duke of Ormond , had finally signed a peace treaty with the royalist Catholic Confederation . For the first time ...
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... battle where the terms of Irish citizenship were hotly contested . The still - raging debate as to whether early modern Ireland was Kingdom or Colony began in the writings of the soldiers , new settlers and longer - term inhabitants of ...
... battle where the terms of Irish citizenship were hotly contested . The still - raging debate as to whether early modern Ireland was Kingdom or Colony began in the writings of the soldiers , new settlers and longer - term inhabitants of ...
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... battle and skirmish , allegiances and en- mities , politics and campaigns throughout the period . But the ' New British History ' has offered no systematic study of the ways and means the language , the metaphors , the generic ...
... battle and skirmish , allegiances and en- mities , politics and campaigns throughout the period . But the ' New British History ' has offered no systematic study of the ways and means the language , the metaphors , the generic ...
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... battle in seventeenth - century Ireland . In a sad legacy , not only of a certain moment in new historicist and postcolonial theory , but also of historical event , even the most sensitive readings of seventeenth - century Ireland are ...
... battle in seventeenth - century Ireland . In a sad legacy , not only of a certain moment in new historicist and postcolonial theory , but also of historical event , even the most sensitive readings of seventeenth - century Ireland are ...
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... battles of the late century eclipsed the long years of complex contest which preceded them and so radically shaped our subsequent reading of Irish and English literature and history . This study could , as the reference to Anderson ...
... battles of the late century eclipsed the long years of complex contest which preceded them and so radically shaped our subsequent reading of Irish and English literature and history . This study could , as the reference to Anderson ...
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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