John Derricke's The Image of Irelande - (Manchester Spenser) by Thomas Herron & Denna J Iammarino & Maryclaire Moroney (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>John Derricke's </i>Image of Irelande<i>, </i>with a Discoverie of Woodkarne<i> </i>is one of the best and least known works produced in England on Tudor Ireland. This collection's sixteen essays examine the work'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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>John Derricke's</i> Image of Irelande<i>, </i>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. 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>John Derricke's<i> The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne</i> 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 <i>Foxe's Book of Martyrs</i>. 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Thomas Herron is Professor of English at East Carolina University Denna Iammarino is a Lecturer at the Case Western Reserve University Maryclaire Moroney is Professor in English at the John Carroll University
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