Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Eckerle, Julie A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women's life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England-even though many of these writers would have identified themselves as English-and making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women's narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape. This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin. The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormonde-women from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Ireland-also receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writers' construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496214263
• Artikelnr.: 56964747

Autorenporträt

Julie A. Eckerle is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris. She is the author of Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen’s Life Writing. Naomi McAreavey is a lecturer in Renaissance literature at University College Dublin. She is the coeditor of The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey
1. Alice Thornton, Elizabeth Freke, and the Remembrances of Ireland
Raymond A. Anselment
2. Reading Dislocation and Emotion in the Writings of Alice Thornton, Ann
Fanshawe, and Barbara Blaugdone
Anne Fogarty
3. The Boyle Women and Familial Life Writing
Ann-Maria Walsh
4. Life Writing in the Boyle Family Network
Amelia Zurcher
5. The Politics of Honor in Lady Ranelagh’s Ireland
Ruth Connolly
6. The Place of Ireland in the Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde
Naomi McAreavey
7. English-Irish Social Networks in the Seventeenth Century
Amanda E. Herbert
8. Women’s Letters in the Lyons Collection of the Correspondence of William
King
Julie A. Eckerle
9. Ownership Inscriptions and Life Writing in the Books of Early Modern
Women
Jason McElligott
Appendix: Archives and Female Life Writers of Early Modern Ireland
Bibliography
Contributors
Index