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Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland
Marie-Louise Coolahan
304 pages
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6 black and white half-tones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-956765-2
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Hardback
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28 January 2010
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- Despite the huge advances made in constructing women's literary history in recent decades, we still lack a cohesive account of women's writing in early modern Ireland. Coolahan redresses this gap
- Includes texts in original languages with English translations
- Organized around literary genres
This book examines writing in English, Irish, and Spanish by women living in Ireland and by Irish women living on the continent between the years 1574 and 1676. This was a tumultuous period of political, religious, and linguistic contestation that encompassed the key power struggles of early modern Ireland. This study brings to light the ways in which women contributed; they strove to be heard and to make sense of their situations, forging space for their voices in complex ways and engaging with native and new language-traditions. The book investigates the genres in which women wrote: poetry, nuns' writing, petition-letters, depositions, biography and autobiography. It argues for a
complex understanding of authorial agency that centres of the act of creating or composing a text, which does not necessarily equate with the physical act of writing. The Irish, English, and European contexts for women's production of texts are identified and assessed. The literary traditions and languages of the different communities living on the island are juxtaposed in order to show how identities were shaped and defined in relation to each other. Marie-Louise Coolahan elucidates the social, political, and economic imperatives for women's writing, examines the ways in which women characterized female composition, and describes an extensive range of cross-cultural, multilingual activity.Readership: Students and
scholars of early modern Irish literature and women's writing.
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Marie-Louise Coolahan, Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
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"Coolahan's entire book is astonishing in both its range and depth. Historians and literary critics will find much to admire here, as well as a strong foundation for future scholarship." - Jenna Lay, H-WRBI Book Reviews "Marie-Louise Coolahan's analysis... promises to reveal cosmopolitanism and sophistication as much as the strong Irish accents in the literary productions of early modern Ireland" - Toby Barnard Times Literary Supplement "this is a wonderful book... With its richness and variety of archival sources, languages (Irish, Latin, Spanish, and English), political and religious viewpoints,and its focus on the difference that gender makes, Mary-Louise Coolahan's Women, Writing, and Language in
Early Modern Ireland is a remarkable contribution to Irish Renaissance literary and historical scholarship." - Clare Carroll, Renaissance Quarterly
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Introduction
1: Poetry in Irish
2: Irish Nuns' Writing: The Poor Clares
3: Petition-letters
4: 1641 Depositions
5: Poetry in English
6: Autobiography
Epilogue
Bibliography
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