John Derricke's the Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne Essays on Text and Context |
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| Editor:
| Herron, Thomas
Iammarino, Denna
Moroney, Maryclaire |
| Series title: | The Manchester Spenser Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5261-4759-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2021 |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $140.00 |
Book Description:
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John Derricke's The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is a key work of English print-making, Irish and English history and cultural misunderstanding.
The work attests to the complexity of English and Irish relations, colonisation, military history, imperial propaganda, poetry, art, printing and the forging of identity in the early modern British Isles. The original work comprises of a lengthy poetic narrative and twelve famous woodcuts of...
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John Derricke's The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is a key work of English print-making, Irish and English history and cultural misunderstanding.
The work attests to the complexity of English and Irish relations, colonisation, military history, imperial propaganda, poetry, art, printing and the forging of identity in the early modern British Isles. The original work comprises of a lengthy poetic narrative and twelve famous woodcuts of the highest quality produced in sixteenth-century England. They also represent some of the only contemporary views of early modern Ireland on record. The sixteen interdisciplinary essays in this collection focus on the text's political and historical meaning, print history, iconographic elements, paratexts, literary and artistic influences, and cultural archaeology. The collection will appeal to scholars of many disciplines.