Spenser and the Filidh in Early Modern Ireland
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature; 47;
- Publisher's listprice GBP 85.00
-
38 377 Ft (36 550 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
38 377 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Date of Publication 24 February 2026
- ISBN 9781843847083
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages244 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 map and 15 b/w illus. 690
Categories
Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Evan Bourke, Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, and Philip Mac a' Ghoill Part 1: Coming into View 1 Counting Ears with Cats' Eyes: The Inconvenient Truth of A View Patricia Palmer 2 Spenser in Munster: A Digital View Evan Bourke 3 Bardic Motifs, Pedigrees and Political Thought: Pursuing Message and Audience Post MACMORRIS Brendan Kane and Evan Bourke Part 2: The Gaelic View 4 Truagh tír gan tighearna: Two Poems on the Death of Tadhg Mac Carthaigh, Baron of Valentia († c.1587) Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh 5 The Poems of Domhnall (mac Dáire) Mac Bruaideadha Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh 6 Sealbh na críche is ceart dá fhréimh: The Poems of Domhnall Ó Dálaigh Philip Mac a' Ghoill 7 Mil ar gach Mír: Eochaidh Ó hEódhusa as a Love Poet Síle Ní Mhurchú Coda Evan Bourke Index of First Lines of Bardic Poems Bibliography Index
More
