John Derricke's the Image of Irelande : With a Discoverie of Woodkarne : Essays on Text and Context / edited by Thomas Herron, Denna Iammarino, and Maryclaire Moroney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herron, Thomas, 1968- editor.

Iammarino, Denna, editor.

Moroney, Maryclaire, editor.

Series:

Manchester Spenser.

The Manchester Spenser Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--16th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Wood-engraving, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

John Derricke's Image of Irelandewith 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.

"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. A book-length narrative in verse with elaborate woodcuts, the work describes the military campaigns in Ireland in the 1570s of Lord Deputy Sir Henry Sidney, dedicatee of the poem and father of the famous poet Sir Philip Sidney. The propagandistic, pro-English, anti-Catholic poem is crammed with figurative and cultural-historical details, making it a text well worthy of study. The book's twelve woodcuts are themselves remarkable: they are of the highest quality produced in sixteenth-century England, comparable to those in Foxe's Book of Martyrs . They also represent some of the only contemporary views of early modern Ireland on record, and yet they have never been properly studied until now. They are reproduced in their entirety in this collection, which rediscovers the Image of Irelande as a multifaceted and complex literary and cultural artefact. It should fascinate scholars of Irish and early modern studies, including historians, literary critics, art historians and historians of the book. The sixteen 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 book will be of interest to students and lecturers in British and Irish social and cultural history." -- Back cover.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of plates and figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Part I Ideologies

2 The transatlantic colonial context

3 Captain and Kern and Knight-in-Arms

Part II Archaeologies

4 Animals make the man

5 Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas

6 Derrickes Image of Irelande and late sixteenth-century Dublin

Part III Print and publication

7 Derricke, Day, and the Dutch, or a tale of woodcuts and woodkerns

8 Framed and clothed with variety

9 Scotlands Image of Irelande

Part IV Influences

10 Anxiety and influence

Anxiety and influence: Derrickes Image of Irelande and the Mirror for Magistrates tradition

11 Patternes of rebellion

12 Irish apocalypse

Part V Intrepretations

13 Clothed with variety

14 Why read between the lines?

15 John Derricke, Edmund Spenser, and the white wand of justice and equity

16 Aspice spectator sic me docuere parentes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526147608

1526147602

OCLC:

1467876092