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Title Dublin : Renaissance city of literature / edited by Kathleen Miller and Crawford Gribben
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 256 pages) : illustrations
Series The Manchester Spenser
Manchester Spenser.
Contents Introduction / Kathleen Miller -- 1. Peripheral print cultures in Renaissance Europe / Alexander S. Wilkinson -- 2. Centre or periphery? The role of Dublin in James Yonge's 'Memoriale' / Theresa O'Byrne -- 3. Responding to the Renaissance: Books and readers in sixteenth-century Dublin / Raymond Gillespie -- 4. Edmund Spenser's Dublin / Andrew Hadfield -- 5. Complaint and reform in late Elizabethan Dublin, 1579-1594 / David Heffernan -- 6. Renaissance Dublin and the construction of literary authorship / Marie-Louise Coolahan -- 7. 'A real credit to Ireland, and to Dublin': The scholarly achievements of Sir James Ware / Mark Empey -- 8. Translation and collaboration in Renaissance Dublin / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- 9. Amor vincit omnia: Gaelic poetry and English books / Mícheál Mac Craith -- 10. Latin oratory in seventeenth-century Dublin / Jason Harris -- 11. Anglo-Irish drama?: Writing for the stage in Restoration Dublin / Stephen Austin Kelly
Summary "This volume interrogates the notion of a literary 'Renaissance' in Dublin, arguing that the associated cultural pursuits were already well developed in late-medieval Ireland. It covers new ground through detailed case studies of print and literature, providing quantitative analysis of print production in Ireland, as well as unique insights into the city's literary communities and considerations of literary genres that flourished there. The chapters address a wider range of topics than much of the existing scholarly literature, including English and European influences, the construction of Dublin literary identities, early modern reading habits and non-Anglophone contexts. The Renaissance in Dublin was marked by people, places and discourses that emerged and re-emerged with unexpected frequency, resulting in the cohesive view of the re-birth of literary activity in Dublin that is captured in this volume. Featuring contributions from leading scholars of early modern Ireland, including Raymond Gillespie, Alexander S. Wilkinson, Marie-Louise Coolahan and Andrew Hadfield, Dublin: Renaissance city of literature is an invaluable resource for understating the factors that contributed to the complex literary character of the city."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 24, 2017)
Subject English literature -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Early modern
English literature -- Irish authors
Ireland -- Dublin
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Miller, Kathleen (Writer on English literature), editor.
Gribben, Crawford, editor.
ISBN 9781526113252
1526113252
9781526113269
1526113260
9781526113269