... Orders: Romance and the Production of Britain, 1740–1830 . Her current project is on allegory and cultural nationalism in Britain and Ireland during the period 1745–1832. Violent Translations: Allegory, Gender, and Cultural Nationalism in Ireland, 1796-1806 Miranda J. Burgess How...

...Ray Heffner Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 SPENSER’S VIEW OF IRELAND: SOME OBSERVATIONS By RAYHEFFNER Edmund Spenser, like every Renaissance man, looked forward to a career in the service of the state. He may have considered the church...

... shows that this statement is morc than just a part of Swift’s pseudo-pessimism which so often has been mistakenly accepted at face value, that it is actually n considered evaluation of the state of tlie Church of Ireland. The first two chapters of the hook are biographical, dealing...

...Matt Eatough Bowen’s Court has most commonly been confronted through methodological paradigms stressing its affinity to traditional Irish generic and historiographical conventions. In contrast, this essay reassesses Anglo-Ireland’s contribution to early twentieth-century literature by rereading...

...Clair Wills Irish realism of the 1960s has often been interpreted as a continuation and rejuvenation of the tradition of Irish naturalism, particularly in its concern to undermine the perceived romanticism of revivalist myths in postindependence Ireland. While Irish realist social critique...

..., iv. 4-20) in English and Roman law. He argues cogently against connecting the episode with the Earl of Northumberland’s claim to treasure in 1566, as proposed by Greenlaw.2 To Spenser ht Kilcolman in southern Ireland during the last decade of the cen- tury, an occurrence on the east coast...

... audience on the structure of A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland. It will be necessary, incidentally, to examine a question frequently ignored : Who were “the Whole People of Ireland” ? Largely discounting the Drupier’s Letters as outside Swift’s general literary and rhetorical practice...

...Walter J. Ong Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 SPENSERS VIEW AND THE TRADITION OF THE “WILD” IRISH By WALTERJ. ONG In A View of the Present State of Ireland’ there is a puzzling inconsistency between Edmund Spenser’s...

... of Daniel Trumpener I Review “5 Corkery’s Synge and AngZdrish Literature ( 1931 ) have used the oeuvres and careers of particular authors to show how Ireland’s social conditions and political tensions molded Anglo-Irish consciousness...

...Alexander C. Judson Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 TWO SPENSER LEASES By ALEXANDERC. JUDSON A chief lure of Ireland for many Englishmen during Tudor times was the opportunity to secure land at advantageous terms. An im...

... Paula . 2002 . Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings . New York : Routledge . Boaden James . 1796 . A Letter to George Steevens, Esq., Containing a Critical Examination of the Papers of Shakspeare; Published by Mr. Samuel Ireland . London...

... besetting Ireland in the late 1720s might be alleviated, if not wholly removed, by the planned breeding of children for human consumption is sustained “at a level of savagery presumably intended to shock the sensibilities of . . . readers into accepting their own responsibility for action.”1...

... contempt of Ireland.’ Goethe’s reference to Irish bulls and their origin in an “Unbehulflichkeit des Geistes” rather points to an influence of Wilhelm Grimm’s review of Croker’s Fairy Legends in the Gottingische Gelehrte Anzcigen, January 12, 1826, where...

... . 1998 . The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction . Berkeley : University of California Press . Botton Alain de . 1997 . How Proust Can Change Your Life . London : Picador . Boyd Ernest A. 1916 . Ireland’s Literary Renaissance . New York : Lane . Brannon Julie Sloan...

... an encounter with Emma, now also at the university. He has written a poem with her in mind (among others), “The Villanelle of the Temptress,” she has learned of his plans to leave Ireland, and he remembers his self-conscious attempt to impress her: “Turned off that valve at once and opened...

... is addressed.ll Another poem is dedicated to Sir William Russell, the friend to whom Sidney bequeathed his best gilt armor, a soldier who was probably serving in the Netherlands at the time when Whitney was publishing his Emblemes at Leyden; Russell was later to be Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1593...

...Joe Cleary Joe Cleary is professor of English at National University Ireland, Maynooth, and visiting professor at Yale University. He is author of Literature, Partition, and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel, and Palestine (2002) and Outrageous Fortune: Capital...

...Arthur C. L. Brown Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 IRISH FABULOUS HISTORY AND CHRETIEN’S PERCE VAL* By ARTHURC. L. BROWK Only recently has Lebor Gabhla Erenn, “The Book of the Taking of Ireland” (LG),become generally...

..., Wace (in whom Tatlock finds no signs of Celtic influence or a lost original), and Lawman, who paradoxically, though he depends rather upon French than Celtic (Welsh) tradition, shows no classical culture but a striking familiarity with Ireland. Geoffrey’s Historia Tatlock would date...

...; The parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself; mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. In these lines all the destructive forces are reborn as tendencies vithin Yeats which might have ruined his poetry. The “parish of rich women” is the “brokers . , . roaring like beasts” in a genteel...