Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803299974 ISBN 13 : 9780803299979

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2019

Synopsis

Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women's life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England--even though many of these writers would have identified themselves as English--and making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women's narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape.

This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin. The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormonde--women from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Ireland--also receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writers' construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Julie A. Eckerle is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris. She is the author of Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing. Naomi McAreavey is a lecturer in Renaissance literature at University College Dublin. She is the coeditor of The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803299974
• ISBN 13: 9780803299979
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 342
• Éditeur: Eckerle Julie A., McAreavey Naomi
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