| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 52 |
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Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 52.
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| Contents |
King Johan (1538), King John, and the Henrician reformation -- Englishness and loyalty in Gerald of Wales' Expugnatio Hibernica (1189) and Holinshed's Irish chronicle -- Portrait of a lord deputy : Sir Henry Sidney in Ireland and on the page -- Negotiating violence and equity in Edmund Spenser's "Legend of justice" (1596) -- "This present quality of war" : truth, trust and truce in 2 Henry IV (1597-98) |
| Summary |
"Dissent and Authority in Early Modern Ireland: The English Problem from Bale to Shakespeare examines the problems that beset the Tudor administration of Ireland through a range of selected 16th century English narratives. This book is primarily concerned with the period between 1541 and 1603. This bracket provides a framework that charts early modern Irish history from the constitutional change of the island from lordship to kingdom to the end of the conquest in 1603. The mounting impetus to bring Ireland to a 'complete' conquest during these years has, quite naturally, led critics to associate England's reform strategies with Irish Otherness. The preoccupation with this discourse of difference is also perceived as the 'Irish Problem, ' a blanket term broadly used to describe just about every aspect of Irishness incompatible with the English imperialist ideologies. The term stresses everything that is 'wrong' with the Irish nation--Ireland was a problem to be resolved. This book takes a different approach towards the 'Irish Problem.' Instead of rehashing the English government's complaints of the recalcitrant Irish and the long struggle to impose royal authority in Ireland, I posit that the 'Irish Problem' was very much shaped and developed by a larger 'English Problem, ' namely English dissent within the English government"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Alberta, 2013, titled Governing Elizabethan Ireland : representations of colonial administration in Holinshed, Spenser, and Shakespeare |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Irish in literature.
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Nationalism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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English literature -- Early modern
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International relations
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Irish in literature
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Literature
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Nationalism and literature
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Ireland -- In literature
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Great Britain -- Relations -- Ireland -- 16th century
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Ireland -- Relations -- Great Britain -- 16th century
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019980849 |
| ISBN |
9780415015356 |
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0415015359 |
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9780415015219 |
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0415015219 |
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9780415015493 |
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0415015499 |
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9781000011968 |
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1000011968 |
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9781000005127 |
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1000005127 |
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9781000018486 |
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1000018482 |
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9780429289781 |
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0429289782 |
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