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Spenser and the Filidh in Early Modern Ireland

by Evan Bourke , Philip Mac A' Ghoill , Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781843847083
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
  • Publisher Imprint: Boydell & Brewer
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  • Pages: 244
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 518 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Renaissance

Uncovers a vibrant literary culture often overlooked by colonial historiography and Anglocentric critical traditions. Reimagines Spenser's Munster through multilingual networks, bardic poetry, and digital methodologies.

Long dominated by Anglocentric narratives, early modern literary studies have often cast Ireland as a backdrop to English self-fashioning. This volume reorients that perspective by foregrounding the multilingual, polyvocal literary culture of Munster in the late sixteenth century, situating Edmund Spenser not as an isolated colonial voice but as one writer among many-Gaelic, Old English, and New English-engaged in a contested cultural landscape. Drawing on archival, digital, and geospatial methodologies, the essays presented here explore bardic poetry, deep mapping, and the politics of language in texts by and about Spenser and his contemporaries. Case studies of bardic poetry, manuscript culture, and poetic networks reveal a vibrant and dynamic Gaelic literary tradition that responded to colonial violence.

By integrating perspectives from Irish-language literature, English studies, and digital humanities, this collection offers a vital corrective to monolingual historiographies and opens new pathways for understanding the cultural entanglements of Spenser's Munster. It reconceptualises the idea of Spenser in Ireland by highlighting the region's cultural complexity and multilingualism, demonstrating how attention to this richness deepens our understanding of one of the most fraught and fateful periods in the shared history of Ireland and England.

Bourke, Evan: - Evan Bourke is a lecturer in English Literature at Maynooth University, Ireland.

Mac A' Ghoill, Philip: - Philip Mac a' Ghoill is a lecturer in Irish Language and Literature at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Nic Chárthaigh, Deirdre: - Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh is a lecturer in the Department of Irish and Celtic Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

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