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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... cultures has been incorpor- ated and contained in a revised and theorised Anglo - Irish canon ; what began as a ... cultural oblivion . For seventeenth - century Ireland was in truth a noisy , scribbling world . In Ireland , as in ...
... cultures has been incorpor- ated and contained in a revised and theorised Anglo - Irish canon ; what began as a ... cultural oblivion . For seventeenth - century Ireland was in truth a noisy , scribbling world . In Ireland , as in ...
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... cultural produc- tion . This is - as the more astute commentators have made clear - to gloss over important parts of the story . The voices and interests clamouring to be heard in Ireland in the seventeenth century are many : the native ...
... cultural produc- tion . This is - as the more astute commentators have made clear - to gloss over important parts of the story . The voices and interests clamouring to be heard in Ireland in the seventeenth century are many : the native ...
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... cultural history of the period , but it remained heavily weighted not just towards the literature of 1534 to c.1630 , but also towards English representations of Ireland . Almost a decade later , British Identities and English ...
... cultural history of the period , but it remained heavily weighted not just towards the literature of 1534 to c.1630 , but also towards English representations of Ireland . Almost a decade later , British Identities and English ...
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... cultural influences at work in their accounts , we may come closer to understanding the clamorous world in which four armies and thousands of would - be settlers crowded on to one small island . II Had Defoe's Cavalier landed in Ireland ...
... cultural influences at work in their accounts , we may come closer to understanding the clamorous world in which four armies and thousands of would - be settlers crowded on to one small island . II Had Defoe's Cavalier landed in Ireland ...
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... cultural borders were often blurred . Nor were problems of shifting ground and altered identities exclusively a function of settlement . For the last two groups in particular , the radical political shifts of the English civil wars ...
... cultural borders were often blurred . Nor were problems of shifting ground and altered identities exclusively a function of settlement . For the last two groups in particular , the radical political shifts of the English civil wars ...
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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