Dublin: Renaissance city of literature

Dublin: Renaissance city of literature interrogates the notion of a literary 'renaissance' in Dublin. Through detailed case studies of print and literature in Renaissance Dublin, the volume covers innovative new ground, including quantitative analysis of print production in Ireland, unique insight into the city's literary communities and considerations of literary genres that flourished in early modern Dublin. The volume's broad focus and extended timeline offer an unprecedented and comprehensive consideration of the features of renaissance that may be traced to the city from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. With contributions from leading scholars in the area of early modern Ireland, including Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield, students and academics will find the book an invaluable resource for fully appreciating those elements that contributed to the complex literary character of Dublin as a Renaissance city of literature.

The volume's broad focus and extended timeline offer an unprecedented and comprehensive consideration of the features of renaissance that may be traced to the city from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.

Dublin: Renaissance city of literature interrogates the notion of a literary 'renaissance' in Dublin. Through detailed case studies of print and literature in Renaissance Dublin, the volume covers innovative new ground, including quantitative analysis of print production in Ireland, unique insight into the city's literary communities and considerations of literary genres that flourished in early modern Dublin. The volume's broad focus and extended timeline offer an unprecedented and comprehensive consideration of the features of renaissance that may be traced to the city from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. With contributions from leading scholars in the area of early modern Ireland, including Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield, students and academics will find the book an invaluable resource for fully appreciating those elements that contributed to the complex literary character of Dublin as a Renaissance city of literature.

Introduction - Kathleen Miller1. Peripheral print cultures in Renaissance Europe - Alexander S. Wilkinson2. Centre or periphery? The role of Dublin in James Yonge's Memoriale - Theresa O'Byrne3. Responding to the Renaissance: Books and readers in sixteenth-century Dublin - Raymond Gillespie4. Edmund Spenser's Dublin - Andrew Hadfield5. Complaint and reform in late Elizabethan Dublin, 1579-1594 - David Heffernan6. Renaissance Dublin and the construction of literary authorship - Marie-Louise Coolahan7. 'A real credit to Ireland, and to Dublin': The scholarly achievements of Sir James Ware - Mark Empey8. Translation and collaboration in Renaissance Dublin - Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin9. Amor vincit omnia: Gaelic poetry and English books - Mícheál Mac Craith10. Latin oratory in seventeenth-century Dublin - Jason Harris11. Anglo-Irish drama?: Writing for the stage in Restoration Dublin - Stephen Austin Kelly