Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-1780, ed. by Moyra Haslett
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 148902643
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108427500
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The first volume in a landmark 6-volume series, this book has a claim to be the most original in the series as no previous collection of essays, or even monograph, on the diversity of literary genres in Ireland in this period has ever been published. Haslett as editor of the volume shaped the contents, commissioned the authors, edited all chapters, and wrote the introduction (11,500 words) and one chapter (8,500 words), both of which were independently peer-reviewed. In editing drafts of the chapters, Haslett intervened to shape the chapters towards addressing the key ambitions of the volume. These include, for the first time, a challenge to the widespread use of ‘Anglo-Irish’ for Irish literature in English of this period, which is extensively discussed in the introduction and is then carried throughout the volume as a whole. The introduction also argues for a recognition of the fluid boundaries between genres, ambivalence about national identity and belonging, the complex interactions between Gaelic and anglophone cultures and the cross-connections between literary establishments and figures in Dublin and London.
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- Non-English
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