| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) |
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Irish literature, history & culture |
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Irish literature, history, and culture.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""White Chimpanzees"": Encountering Ireland; 2. ""Ad Remotissimas Occidentis Insulas"": Gerald and the Irish; 3. ""They Are All Wandred Much: That Plaine Appeares"": Spenser and the Old English; 4. ""The Remarkablest Story of lreland"": Shakespeare and the Irish War; 5. ""The Irish Game Turned Again"": Jonson and the Union; Conclusion: 1641 and After; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Summary |
At the rise of the Tudor age, England began to form a national identity. With that sense of self came the beginnings of the colonialist notion of the ""other"""" Ireland, however, proved a most difficult other because it was so closely linked, both culturally and geographically, to England. Ireland's colonial position was especially complex because of the political, religious, and ethnic heritage it shared with England. Andrew Murphy asserts that the Irish were seen not as absolute but as ""proximate"" others. As a result, English writing about Ireland was a problematic process, since standard |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge -- Ireland
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Knowledge -- Ireland
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 fast |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 fast |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Irish influences.
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Colonies in literature.
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Renaissance -- England
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Colonies in literature
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English literature -- Early modern
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English literature -- Irish influences
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Historiography
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Literature
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Public opinion, English
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Renaissance
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Bellettrie.
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Engels.
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Kolonialisme.
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Ireland -- Foreign public opinion, English
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Ireland -- Historiography
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Ireland -- In literature
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England
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Ireland
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Ierland.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0813170133 |
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9780813170138 |
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0813149509 |
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9780813149509 |
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