This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hundred years of literature and culture. There is no singular approach to what pain means: the material addressed in this collection covers diverse cultural forms, from reports of battles and executions to stage and screen representations of sexual violence, produced in response to different historical circumstances in terms that confirm our understanding of how pain - whether endured or inflicted, witnessed or remediated - is culturally...
This book elucidates the ways the pained and suffering body has been registered and mobilized in specifically Irish contexts across more than four hun...
This first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women's life writing in a specifically Irish context provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts. By making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women's narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape.
This first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women's life writing in a specifically Irish context provides an original perspective o...
