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Mere Irish & fíor-ghael : studies in the idea of Irish nationality, its development, and literary expression prior to the nineteenth century / Joseph Th. Leerssen

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Leerssen, Joseph Th. (Joseph Theodoor), 1955-
Published
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.
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1 online resource (xvii, 535 pages).
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English.
Contents
MERE IRISH & F�OR-GHAEL -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- SPELLING, TYPOGRAPHY, NOMENCLATURE -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION:AIMS AND METHODS -- 1. THE IDEA OF NATIONALITY TERMINOLOGY AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- 2. IRELAND IN ENGLISH REPRESENTATIONS -- 2.1. Early and medieval descriptions -- 2.2. The Tudor period -- 2.3. The seventeenth century -- 2.4. The eighteenth century -- 3. THE FICTIONAL IRISHMAN. IN ENGLISH LITERATURE -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Pre-restoration drama, 3.3 The later seventeenth century3.3.1 Howard and Crowne -- 3.3.2 Plot and credence: Thomas Shadwell -- 3.3.3 Anti-Irish dramatic pamphlets -- 3.4 The early eighteenth century -- 3.4.1. Bulls, blunders and George Farquhar: return to comedy -- 3.4.2. The fortune-hunter: funny or dangerous? -- 3.5. The mid-century amelioration -- 3.5.1. Irish officers: Charles Molloy and Charles Shadwell -- 3.5.2. Smollett's Reprisal -- 3.5.3. Thomas Sheridan -- 3.6 The positive Stage Irishman -- 3.6.1 Charles Macklin -- 3.6.2. Macklin's impact, 3.6.3. Sentiments that deserve applause: Irish characters and English national feeling3.6.4. Noble savage vs. savage nobleman: the pride of mere Irish -- 3.6.5. The duel and Sir Lucius O'Trigger -- 3.6.6 Conclusion -- 4. GAELIC POETRY AND THE IDEA OF IRISH NATIONALITY -- 4.1. Bardic poetry and clan society, 1200-1600 -- 4.1.1. Introduction -- 4.1.2. A note on the Gaelic order and on bardic conventions -- 4.1.3. The Hiberno-Norman presence -- 4.1.3.1. Goill, high-kingship and prophecy -- 4.1.3.2. Poets and Hiberno-Norman patrons, 4.1.4. The Old English presence4.1.5. Tudor expansionism -- 4.1.6. The breakdown of the bardic order -- 4.2. From the end of bardic poetry to the end of the Gaelic literary tradition -- 4.2.1. Introduction: some general aspects surveyed. -- 4.2.2. Post-bardic poetry of the seventeenth century -- 4.2.3. Dáibhà � Bruadair and his time -- 4.2.4. Aogán � Rathaille and the aisling -- 4.2.5. The waning of Gaelic literature and the growth of a national Gaelic stance -- 4.2.6. Conclusion -- 5. THE PUBLIC ASSERTION OF IRISH CIVILITY, and 5.1. Introduction: persecution and exile of the learned classes5.2. Old English and Gaelic recusants -- 5.3. Pious and counter-reformatory works, and the importance of the Irish language -- 5.4. The Gaelic nationalization of the recusant enterprise -- 5.5. The Cromwellian aftermath -- 6. GAEL AND ANGLO-IRISH: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IRISH NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- Prelude: The spread and development of celtological interest in the seventeenth century -- 6.1. English gentlemen born in Ireland: the Ascendancy in the earlier eighteenth century
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9789027279156 (electronic bk.)
9027279152 (electronic bk.)
1283424649
9781283424646
9786613424648
6613424641
9027221987
9789027221988
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-520) and index.
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