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Spenserian Tracts

'A Brief Discourse of Ireland' and 'the Supplication of the Blood of the English' from the Munster Revolt of 1598

Hiram Morgan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Publishing:19th Aug '25

£85.00

This title is due to be published on 19th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Morgan’s study of key texts situating Edmund Spenser and the plantation in Munster in the late 1590s reveals not only a hatred and abiding fear of the Catholic Irish but also disturbing tensions with the state in England including the Queen herself. In doing so, he has combined traditional historical and literary methods with stylometric document testing to reveal the authorship of these controversial contemporary tracts. Overall this insightful book reimagines the English colonial mentality of the period by examining its underbelly of anonymous texts.

ISBN: 9781526156433

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

272 pages