Contesting Ireland
Subtitle: Irish voices against England in the eighteenth century
By: T.O. McLoughlin.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Public opinion -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.; Nationalism -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.; Nationalism in literature.; Ireland -- History -- 18th century -- Historiography.; England -- Foreign public opinion, Irish.; Ireland -- Relations -- England.; England -- Relations -- Ireland.; Ireland -- In literature.; England -- In literature.
Description: "Although Irish Protestants argued continually through the 18th century that Ireland was not a colony, to all intents and purposes that was the way England saw it. Yet behind the barrage of criticism out of Ireland there was little consensus as to who precisely constituted the Irish. This book looks at a range of writers from Molyneux through to the mid-century Catholic historian Charles O'Conor and on to Maria Edgeworth to see how they each resisted English images of the Irish."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.