The severed head and the grafted tongue : literature, translation and violence in early modern Ireland /

The severed head and the grafted tongue : literature, translation and violence in early modern Ireland / Patricia Palmer, King's College London.

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"Severed heads emblemise the vexed relationship between the aesthetic and the atrocious. During the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, colonisers such as Edmund Spenser, Sir John Harington and Sir George Carew wrote or translated epic romances replete with beheadings even as they countenanced - o...

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Main Author: Palmer, Patricia, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Beheading in literature.
Violence in literature.
Romances, English > History and criticism.
Romances > Translations into English.
Beheading > Ireland > History.
Political violence > Ireland > History.
British > Ireland > History > 16th century.
Beheading
Beheading in literature
British
English literature > Early modern
Political violence
Romances
Romances, English
Violence in literature
Ireland > History > 16th century.
Ireland
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Translations

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Call Number: PR428.B43 P35 2013eb
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