Dublin : Renaissance city of literature /
edited by Kathleen Miller and Crawford Gribben.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (vi, 256 pages) : illustrations.
- The Manchester Spenser .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / 1. Peripheral print cultures in Renaissance Europe / 2. Centre or periphery? The role of Dublin in James Yonge's 'Memoriale' / 3. Responding to the Renaissance: Books and readers in sixteenth-century Dublin / 4. Edmund Spenser's Dublin / 5. Complaint and reform in late Elizabethan Dublin, 1579-1594 / 6. Renaissance Dublin and the construction of literary authorship / 7. 'A real credit to Ireland, and to Dublin': The scholarly achievements of Sir James Ware / 8. Translation and collaboration in Renaissance Dublin / 9. Amor vincit omnia: Gaelic poetry and English books / 10. Latin oratory in seventeenth-century Dublin / 11. Anglo-Irish drama?: Writing for the stage in Restoration Dublin / Kathleen Miller -- Alexander S. Wilkinson -- Theresa O'Byrne -- Raymond Gillespie -- Andrew Hadfield -- David Heffernan -- Marie-Louise Coolahan -- Mark Empey -- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- Mícheál Mac Craith -- Jason Harris -- Stephen Austin Kelly.
"This volume interrogates the notion of a literary 'Renaissance' in Dublin, arguing that the associated cultural pursuits were already well developed in late-medieval Ireland. It covers new ground through detailed case studies of print and literature, providing quantitative analysis of print production in Ireland, as well as unique insights into the city's literary communities and considerations of literary genres that flourished there. The chapters address a wider range of topics than much of the existing scholarly literature, including English and European influences, the construction of Dublin literary identities, early modern reading habits and non-Anglophone contexts. The Renaissance in Dublin was marked by people, places and discourses that emerged and re-emerged with unexpected frequency, resulting in the cohesive view of the re-birth of literary activity in Dublin that is captured in this volume. Featuring contributions from leading scholars of early modern Ireland, including Raymond Gillespie, Alexander S. Wilkinson, Marie-Louise Coolahan and Andrew Hadfield, Dublin: Renaissance city of literature is an invaluable resource for understating the factors that contributed to the complex literary character of the city."--
9781526113252
English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.