Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534-1660

by Andrew Hadfield and Willy Maley

Book Overview

In this volume of essays a group of historians and literary critics debate the representation of early modern Ireland by English Renaissance authors. The contributions deal both with modes of representation - aesthetic, geographic, literary, political, visual - and with the biographies of representative individuals. Thus historical commentary and textual analysis go hand-in-hand with biography and chronology. The essays are interdisciplinary, combining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521129265
• ISBN13: 9780521129268
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"