Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845David A. Valone, Jill Marie Bradbury This book presents a series of essays that examine the ideological, personal, and political difficulties faced by the group variously termed the Anglo-Irish, the Protestant Ascendancy, or the English in Ireland, a group that existed in a world of contested ideological, political, and cultural identities. At the root of this conflicted sense of self was an acute awareness among the Anglo-Irish of their liminal position as colonial dominators in Ireland who were viewed as other both by the Catholic natives of Ireland and by their English kinsmen. The work in this volume is highly interdisciplinary, bringing to bear examination of issues that are historical, literary, economic, and sociological. Contributors investigate how individuals experienced the ambiguities and conflicts of identity formation in a colonial society, how writers fought the economic and ideological superiority of the English, how the cooption of Gaelic history and culture was a political strategy for the Anglo-Irish, and how literary texts contributed to the emergence of national consciousness. In seeking to understand and trace the complex process of identity formation in early modern Ireland the essays in this volume attest to its tenuous, dynamic, and necessarily incomplete nature. David A. Valone is an Assistant Professor of History at Quinnipiac University. Jill Marie Bradbury is an Assistant Professor of English at Gallaudet University. |
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Hugh ONeill and National Identity in Early Modern Ireland | 30 |
and Contaminants Representing Irish Women in New English Discourse 15711601 | 44 |
EighteenthCentury Politics The Case of John Toland | 59 |
Locality and National Identity in Irish and Scottish Eclogues | 84 |
Who are the We in We Irish think otherwise? | 104 |
Swift and the 1707 Act of Union | 126 |
Domestic Political and Moral Economies in Swifts Irish Writings | 165 |
AngloIrish Antiquarianism and the Transformation of Irish Identity 17501800 | 181 |
History Sensibility and the Vagaries of Reception in The Wild Irish Girl | 199 |
Incestuous Unions in Sydney Owensons The Wild Irish Girl and Maria Edgeworths The Absentee | 220 |
Economic Identity and the Irish Peasantry on the Eve of the Great Hunger | 238 |
Bibliography | 253 |
Contributors | 273 |
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