The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue: Literature, Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland

by Patricia Palmer

Book Overview

Severed heads emblemise the vexed relationship between the aesthetic and the atrocious. During the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, colonisers such as Edmund Spenser, Sir John Harington and Sir George Carew wrote or translated epic romances replete with beheadings even as they countenanced - or conducted - similar deeds on the battlefield. This study juxtaposes the archival record of actual violence with literary depictions of decapitation to explore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107614708
• ISBN13: 9781107614703
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"