:<i>Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534-1660</i>

Abstract

Introduction: Irish representations and English alternatives 1. The English invasion of Ireland 2. Translating the reformation: John Bale's Irish Vocacyon 3. Encountering Ireland: Gabriel Harvey, Edmund Spenser, and English Colonial Ventures 4. Off the map: charting uncertainty in renaissance Ireland 5. Mapping mutability: or, Spenser's Irish plot 6. 'The Fatal Destiny of that Land': Elizabethan views of Ireland 7. Tom Lee: the posing peacemaker 8. Geoffrey Keating: apologist of Irish Ireland 9. How Milton and some contemporaries read Spenser's View 10. Extreme or mainstream?: the English independents and the Cromwellian reconquest of Ireland, 1649-1651.