Deana Rankin

Between Spenser and Swift

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Produktbeschreibung

While 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780521843027
• ISBN-10: 0521843022
• Artikelnr.: 14689587

Autorenporträt

Deana Rankin is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Girton College, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Rebels, Subjects, Citizens: 1. Between soldier and settler: the English parliamentary writing of Ireland; 2. Writing the Irish subject, 1633-41; 3. An Aphorismical Discovery of Treasonable Faction: the search for citizenship, 1642-52; Coda: Hannibal in Capua; Part II. 'Relating the Truth of Things Past': 4. Staging resolution: restoration, romance and the Dublin theatre; 5. History, romance and the writings of Richard Bellings; 6. 'The paper warre you must expect to be assaulted with': English histories of Ireland, 1660-89; Conclusion: from Spenser to Swift.

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Introduction; Part I. Rebels, Subjects, Citizens: 1. Between soldier and settler: the English parliamentary writing of Ireland; 2. Writing the Irish subject, 1633
41; 3. An Aphorismical Discovery of Treasonable Faction: the search for citizenship, 1642
52; Coda: Hannibal in Capua; Part II. 'Relating the Truth of Things Past': 4. Staging resolution: restoration, romance and the Dublin theatre; 5. History, romance and the writings of Richard Bellings; 6. 'The paper warre you must expect to be assaulted with': English histories of Ireland, 1660
89; Conclusion: from Spenser to Swift.

Rezensionen

Review of the hardback: 'Between Spenser and Swift is filled with rich discoveries. While a number of recent studies ... have started to demonstrate the significance of seventeenth-century English writing in Ireland, Deana Rankin's book is now the fullest account of this work and should encourage more detailed investigations, particularly in the thoroughly neglected area of drama.' The Times Literary Supplement