Contributor
Haslett, Moyra, editor.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Descriptionxv, 409 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Part I. Starting Points -- Starting Points and Moving Targets: Transition and the Early Modern / Marie-Louise Coolahan -- 'We Irish': Writing and National Identity from Berkeley to Burke / Ian Campbell Ross -- Re-Viewing Swift / Brean Hammone --Part II. Philosophical and Political Frameworks -- The Prejudices of Enlightenment / David Dwan -- The Molyneux Problem and Irish Enlightenment / Darell Jones -- Samuel Whyte and the Politics of Eighteenth-Century Irish Private Theatricals / Helen M. Burke -- Part III. Local, National, and Transnational Contexts -- Land and Landscape in Irish Poetry in English, 1700-1780 / Andrew Carpenter -- The Idea of an Eighteenth-Century National Theatre / Conrad Brunström -- Transnational Influence and Exchange: The Intersections between Irish and French Sentimental Novels / Amy Prendergast -- 'An Example to the Whole World': Patriotism and Imperialism in Early Irish Fiction / Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- Part IV. Gender and Sexuality -- The Province of Poetry: Women Poets in Early Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Aileen Douglas -- Queering Eighteenth-Century Irish Writing: Yahoo, Fribble, Freke / Declan Kavanagh -- 'Brightest Wits and Bravest Soldiers': Ireland, Masculinity, and the Politics of Paternity / Rebecca Anne Barr -- Fictions of Sisterhood in Eighteenth-Century Irish Writing / Moyra Haslett -- Part V. Transcultural Contexts -- The Popular Criminal Narrative and the Development of the Irish Novel / Joe Lines -- Gaelic Influences and Echoes in the Irish Novel, 1700-1780 / Anne Markey -- New Beginning or Bearer of Tradition? Early Irish Fiction and the Construction of the Child / Cliona Ó Gallchoir -- Part VI. Retrospective Readings -- Re-Imagining Feminist Protest in Contemporary Translation: Lament for Art O'Leary and The Midnight Court / Lesa Ní Mhunghaile -- 'Our Darkest Century': The Irish Eighteenth Century in Memory and Modernity / James Ward.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"William Dunkin's exuberant comic poem, The Parson's Revels, offers a useful starting point for this collection because it gives voice to something of the complexity of eighteenth century culture in Ireland. The poem's setting is a Christmas-time feast held in the mid- 1740s at Beauchamp Hall, near Athy, Co. Kildare."-- Provided by publisher.
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