Mere Irish & fíor-ghael : studies in the idea of Irish nationality, its development, and literary expression prior to the nineteenth century /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1986.
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Colección: | Utrecht publications in general and comparative literature ;
v. 22. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- MERE IRISH & FÃ?OR-GHAEL
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- SPELLING, TYPOGRAPHY, NOMENCLATURE
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION:AIMS AND METHODS
- 1. THE IDEA OF NATIONALITY TERMINOLOGY AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
- 2. IRELAND IN ENGLISH REPRESENTATIONS
- 2.1. Early and medieval descriptions
- 2.2. The Tudor period
- 2.3. The seventeenth century
- 2.4. The eighteenth century
- 3. THE FICTIONAL IRISHMAN. IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Pre-restoration drama
- 3.3 The later seventeenth century3.3.1 Howard and Crowne
- 3.3.2 Plot and credence: Thomas Shadwell
- 3.3.3 Anti-Irish dramatic pamphlets
- 3.4 The early eighteenth century
- 3.4.1. Bulls, blunders and George Farquhar: return to comedy
- 3.4.2. The fortune-hunter: funny or dangerous?
- 3.5. The mid-century amelioration
- 3.5.1. Irish officers: Charles Molloy and Charles Shadwell
- 3.5.2. Smollett's Reprisal
- 3.5.3. Thomas Sheridan
- 3.6 The positive Stage Irishman
- 3.6.1 Charles Macklin
- 3.6.2. Macklin's impact
- 3.6.3. Sentiments that deserve applause: Irish characters and English national feeling3.6.4. Noble savage vs. savage nobleman: the pride of mere Irish
- 3.6.5. The duel and Sir Lucius O'Trigger
- 3.6.6 Conclusion
- 4. GAELIC POETRY AND THE IDEA OF IRISH NATIONALITY
- 4.1. Bardic poetry and clan society, 1200-1600
- 4.1.1. Introduction
- 4.1.2. A note on the Gaelic order and on bardic conventions
- 4.1.3. The Hiberno-Norman presence
- 4.1.3.1. Goill, high-kingship and prophecy
- 4.1.3.2. Poets and Hiberno-Norman patrons
- 4.1.4. The Old English presence4.1.5. Tudor expansionism
- 4.1.6. The breakdown of the bardic order
- 4.2. From the end of bardic poetry to the end of the Gaelic literary tradition
- 4.2.1. Introduction: some general aspects surveyed.
- 4.2.2. Post-bardic poetry of the seventeenth century
- 4.2.3. Dáibhà � Bruadair and his time
- 4.2.4. Aogán � Rathaille and the aisling
- 4.2.5. The waning of Gaelic literature and the growth of a national Gaelic stance
- 4.2.6. Conclusion
- 5. THE PUBLIC ASSERTION OF IRISH CIVILITY
- 5.1. Introduction: persecution and exile of the learned classes5.2. Old English and Gaelic recusants
- 5.3. Pious and counter-reformatory works, and the importance of the Irish language
- 5.4. The Gaelic nationalization of the recusant enterprise
- 5.5. The Cromwellian aftermath
- 6. GAEL AND ANGLO-IRISH: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IRISH NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- Prelude: The spread and development of celtological interest in the seventeenth century
- 6.1. English gentlemen born in Ireland: the Ascendancy in the earlier eighteenth century