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Dublin : Renaissance city of literature / edited by Kathleen Miller and Crawford Gribben

Published
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
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1 online resource (vi, 256 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Miller, Kathleen (Writer on English literature) and Gribben, Crawford
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Language Note
In English.
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."--
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9781526113252 (electronic bk.)
1526113252 (electronic bk.)
9781526113269 (ePUB eBook)
1526113260
9781526113269
9781526113245
1526113244
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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