John Derricke's The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne : Essays on text and context (The Manchester Spenser) - Hardcover

 
9781526147592: John Derricke's The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne : Essays on text and context (The Manchester Spenser)
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ISBN 10: 1526147599 ISBN 13: 9781526147592
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2021

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John Derricke’s Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is a key work of English print-making, Irish and English history and cultural misunderstanding. The work attests to the complexity of English and Irish relations, colonisation, military history, imperial propaganda, poetry, art, printing and the forging of identity in the early modern British Isles. The original work comprises of a lengthy poetic narrative and twelve famous woodcuts of the highest quality produced in sixteenth-century England. They also represent some of the only contemporary views of early modern Ireland on record. The sixteen interdisciplinary essays in this collection focus on the text’s political and historical meaning, print history, iconographic elements, paratexts, literary and artistic influences, and cultural archaeology. The collection will appeal to scholars of many disciplines. -- .

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Thomas Herron is Professor of English at East Carolina University

Denna Iammarino is a Lecturer at the Case Western Reserve University

Maryclaire Moroney is Professor in English at the John Carroll University

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John Derricke’s The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is a key work of English print-making, Irish and English history and cultural misunderstanding. The work attests to the complexity of English and Irish relations, colonisation, military history, imperial propaganda, poetry, art, printing and the forging of identity in the early modern British Isles. A book-length narrative in verse with elaborate woodcuts, the work describes the military campaigns in Ireland in the 1570s of Lord Deputy Sir Henry Sidney, dedicatee of the poem and father of the famous poet Sir Philip Sidney. The propagandistic, pro-English, anti-Catholic poem is crammed with figurative and cultural-historical details, making it a text well worthy of study.

The book’s twelve woodcuts are themselves remarkable: they are of the highest quality produced in sixteenth-century England, comparable to those in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. They also represent some of the only contemporary views of early modern Ireland on record, and yet they have never been properly studied until now. They are reproduced in their entirety in this collection, which rediscovers the Image of Irelande as a multifaceted and complex literary and cultural artefact. It should fascinate scholars of Irish and early modern studies, including historians, literary critics, art historians and historians of the book. The sixteen essays in this collection focus on the text’s political and historical meaning, print history, iconographic elements, paratexts, literary and artistic influences and cultural archaeology.

The book will be of interest to students and lecturers in British and Irish social and cultural history.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526147599
ISBN 13 
9781526147592
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
318
Herausgeber
Herron Thomas, Iammarino Denna, Moroney Maryclaire
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