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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... hand . Yet Defoe's fictional Cavalier never quite makes it to Ireland . There are limits , it would seem , even to ... hands . Just days before the battle of Newark , too late to be of service to the king , Charles's Lord Lieutenant in ...
... hand . Yet Defoe's fictional Cavalier never quite makes it to Ireland . There are limits , it would seem , even to ... hands . Just days before the battle of Newark , too late to be of service to the king , Charles's Lord Lieutenant in ...
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... hands and new arrivals moved through the country . Their journeys and experiences are documented in , indeed were shaped by , the texts they left behind . These range from fragments and miscellanea - letters , diaries , maps - to more ...
... hands and new arrivals moved through the country . Their journeys and experiences are documented in , indeed were shaped by , the texts they left behind . These range from fragments and miscellanea - letters , diaries , maps - to more ...
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... hand account of the perils and barbarities of that land . Chief villains of Irenaeus's account are those English families who ' have degendred from their auncient dignities , and are now growne as Irish , as O'hanlon's breech , as the ...
... hand account of the perils and barbarities of that land . Chief villains of Irenaeus's account are those English families who ' have degendred from their auncient dignities , and are now growne as Irish , as O'hanlon's breech , as the ...
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... hands of the late nineteenth - century editor.24 At the point at which Irish nationalism , Gladstone's Home Rule policy , and the figure of Charles Stuart Parnell came to dominate politics at the English metropolitan centre , editors ...
... hands of the late nineteenth - century editor.24 At the point at which Irish nationalism , Gladstone's Home Rule policy , and the figure of Charles Stuart Parnell came to dominate politics at the English metropolitan centre , editors ...
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... hand of God in the Visitation of the Plague ( Cork and London , 1650 ) . 36 Studies of charismatic elite figures have illuminated the complex political and geographical worlds in which they operated . See N. Canny , The Upstart Earl : A ...
... hand of God in the Visitation of the Plague ( Cork and London , 1650 ) . 36 Studies of charismatic elite figures have illuminated the complex political and geographical worlds in which they operated . See N. Canny , The Upstart Earl : A ...
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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