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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... War , and later the English civil wars . En route 1 Daniel Defoe , Memoirs of a Cavalier ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1991 ) , p . 261 . 2 On sources , see A. W. Secord , ' The Origins of Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier ' , in ...
... War , and later the English civil wars . En route 1 Daniel Defoe , Memoirs of a Cavalier ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1991 ) , p . 261 . 2 On sources , see A. W. Secord , ' The Origins of Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier ' , in ...
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... war . This chronological focus seeks to restore a sense of continuity across the century . Many historical studies of this period , of Ireland as of England , end in 1641 with the advent of war , or begin in 1660 with the Restoration of ...
... war . This chronological focus seeks to restore a sense of continuity across the century . Many historical studies of this period , of Ireland as of England , end in 1641 with the advent of war , or begin in 1660 with the Restoration of ...
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... 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 consolidate ...
... 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 consolidate ...
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... wars . Ireland is , quite literally , not big enough to accommodate them all . Central to the debates concerning civic partici- pation , therefore - in Ireland as in England - are the relations between land , soldiership and citizenship ...
... wars . Ireland is , quite literally , not big enough to accommodate them all . Central to the debates concerning civic partici- pation , therefore - in Ireland as in England - are the relations between land , soldiership and citizenship ...
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... wars . " As the vocal resistance from Irish and Scottish historians to Anglocentric interpret- ations of the Civil War , Republic and Protectorate periods indicates , however , the project does carry its own dangers of centralisation ...
... wars . " As the vocal resistance from Irish and Scottish historians to Anglocentric interpret- ations of the Civil War , Republic and Protectorate periods indicates , however , the project does carry its own dangers of centralisation ...
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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