Women S Life Writing And Early Modern Ireland

Author : Julie A. Eckerle,Naomi McAreavey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781496214263

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Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland by Julie A. Eckerle,Naomi McAreavey Pdf

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.

Author : Julie A. Eckerle,Naomi McAreavey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781496214287

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Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland by Julie A. Eckerle,Naomi McAreavey Pdf

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.

Author : Elizabeth Scott-Baumann,Danielle Clarke,Sarah C. E. Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198860631

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann,Danielle Clarke,Sarah C. E. Ross Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on--and challenges--the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.

Author : Marie-Louise Coolahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199567652

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Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland by Marie-Louise Coolahan Pdf

This book discusses women's writing in early modern Ireland. It explores the ways in which women contributed to the power struggles of the period; how they strove to be heard, forged space for their voices, and engaged with new and native language-traditions to produce poetry, petition-letters, depositions, and autobiography.

Author : Marie-Louise Coolahan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191573248

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Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland by Marie-Louise Coolahan Pdf

This book examines writing in English, Irish, and Spanish by women living in Ireland and by Irish women living on the continent between the years 1574 and 1676. This was a tumultuous period of political, religious, and linguistic contestation that encompassed the key power struggles of early modern Ireland. This study brings to light the ways in which women contributed; they strove to be heard and to make sense of their situations, forging space for their voices in complex ways and engaging with native and new language-traditions. The book investigates the genres in which women wrote: poetry, nuns' writing, petition-letters, depositions, biography and autobiography. It argues for a complex understanding of authorial agency that centres of the act of creating or composing a text, which does not necessarily equate with the physical act of writing. The Irish, English, and European contexts for women's production of texts are identified and assessed. The literary traditions and languages of the different communities living on the island are juxtaposed in order to show how identities were shaped and defined in relation to each other. Marie-Louise Coolahan elucidates the social, political, and economic imperatives for women's writing, examines the ways in which women characterized female composition, and describes an extensive range of cross-cultural, multilingual activity.

Author : Margaret MacCurtain,Mary O'Dowd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001926136

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Women in Early Modern Ireland by Margaret MacCurtain,Mary O'Dowd Pdf

Onderwerpen: eigendom 16e eeuw; piraterij met Gráinne O'Mally en Anne Bonny; oorlog 1640; literatuur 1500-1800; onderwijs; reformatie; abortus; gek zijn 1600-1850; bakers; huisindustrie.

Author : Mary O'Dowd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317877257

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A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800 by Mary O'Dowd Pdf

The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of considerable change in Ireland as English colonisation, religious reform and urbanisation transformed society on the island. Gaelic society based on dynastic lordships and Brehon Law gave way to an anglicised and centralised form of government and an English legal system.

Author : Sarah Covington,Valerie McGowan-Doyle,Vincent Carey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351242998

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Early Modern Ireland by Sarah Covington,Valerie McGowan-Doyle,Vincent Carey Pdf

Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland, and of British and European history more generally, into unexplored directions. The centuries between 1500 and 1700 were pivotal in Ireland’s history, yet so much about this period has remained neglected until relatively recently, and a great deal has yet to be explored. Containing seventeen original and individually commissioned essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging scholars, this book covers a wide range of topics, including social, cultural, and political history as well as folklore, medicine, archaeology, and digital humanities, all of which are enhanced by a selection of maps, graphs, tables, and images. Urging a reevaluation of the terms and assumptions which have been used to describe Ireland’s past, and a consideration of the new directions in which the study of early modern Ireland could be taken, Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives is a groundbreaking collection for students and scholars studying early modern Irish history.

Author : Elizabeth Storr Cohen,Margaret Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9462984328

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The Youth of Early Modern Women by Elizabeth Storr Cohen,Margaret Reeves Pdf

Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry -- cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences -- these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse England, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and Mexico from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, their own life writings, young women's training for adulthood, courtship, and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.

Author : Heather Ingman,Clíona Ó Gallchoir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108654586

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A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature by Heather Ingman,Clíona Ó Gallchoir Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as life-writing and unpublished writing, and addresses work in both English and Irish. The chapters are authored by leading experts in their field, giving readers an introduction to cutting edge research on each period and topic. Survey chapters give an essential historical overview, and are complemented by a focus on selected topics such as the short story, and key figures whose relationship to the narrative of Irish literary history is analysed and reconsidered. Demonstrating the pioneering achievements of a huge number of many hitherto neglected writers, A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature makes a critical intervention in Irish literary history.

Author : Katherine Scheil,Linda Shenk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040037416

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Early Modern Improvisations by Katherine Scheil,Linda Shenk Pdf

With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and politics. The book engages readers interested in texts that range from Shakespeare and Tudor queens to Anglican missionary work in North America; from contemporary feminist television series to Ancient Greek linguistic and philosophical concepts; from the delicate dance of diplomatic exchange to the instabilities of illness, food insecurity, and piracy. Its range of contributions encourages readers to discover their own intersections across literary and historical texts, a sense of discovery that this collection’s contributors learned from its dedicatee, John Watkins, a major literary and cultural historian whose work moves effortlessly across geographical, temporal, and political borders. His work and his personality embody the spirit of creative improvisation that brings new ideas together, allowing texts and figures of history to haunt later eras and encourage new questions. This volume is aimed at scholars and students alike who wish to explore early modern culture and its reverberations in ways that engage with a world outside the grand narratives and centralized institutions of power, a world that is more provisional, less scripted, and more improvisational.

Author : Sonya Cronin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030896096

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Women, Royalisms and Exiles 1640–1669 by Sonya Cronin Pdf

This book examines a range of royalist women’s cultural responses to war, dislocation, diaspora and exile through a rich variety of media across multiple geographies of the archipelago of the British Isles and as far as The Hague and Antwerp on the Continent, thereby uniquely documenting comparative links between women’s cultural production, types of exile and political allegiance. Offering the first full length study to therorize the royalist condition as one of diaspora, it chronologically charts a series of ruptures beginning with initial displacement and dispersal due to civil war in the early 1640s and concludes with examination of the homecoming for royalist exiles after the restoration in 1660. As it retrieves its subjects’ varied experiences of exile, and documents how these politically conscious women produce contrasting yet continuous forms of cultural, personal and political identities, it challenges conventional paradigms which all too neatly categorize royalism and exile during this seminal period in British and European history.

Author : Seamus Deane,Andrew Carpenter,Angela Bourke,Jonathan Williams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : English literature
ISBN : 081479906X

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The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing by Seamus Deane,Andrew Carpenter,Angela Bourke,Jonathan Williams Pdf

Author : Amanda E. Herbert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300177404

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Female Alliances by Amanda E. Herbert Pdf

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long eighteenth century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women’s lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world.

Author : Lara Dodds,Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496220424

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Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing by Lara Dodds,Michelle M. Dowd Pdf

This volume examines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women’s writing by exploring women’s debts to and appropriations of different literary genres and offering practical suggestions for the teaching of women’s texts.