John Derricke’s Image of Irelande
, 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.
Table of Content
List of plates and figures
1 Introduction Thomas Herron, Denna J. Iammarino, and Maryclaire Moroney Part I Ideologies
2 The transatlantic colonial context: John Derricke versus Edmund Spenser Brian C. Lockey
3 Captain and Kern and Knight-in-Arms: martial identities and the subject of conquest in Derricke’s Image of Irelande Maryclaire Moroney Part II Archaeologies
4 Animals make the man: violence, masculinity, and the colonial project in Derricke’s Image of Irelande John Soderberg
5 ‘Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas’: Sir Henry Sidney’s return to Dublin as depicted in John Derricke’s Image of Irelande Bríd Mc Grath
6 Derricke’s Image of Irelande (1581) and late sixteenth-century Dublin James Lyttleton Part III Print and publication
7 Derricke, Day, and the Dutch, or a tale of woodcuts and woodkerns Stuart Kinsella
8 ‘Framed and clothed with variety’: print culture, multimodality, and visual design in Derricke’s Image of Irelande Andie Silva
9 Scotland’s Image of Irelande: Scott, Small, and the Edinburgh Edition Willy Maley and Alasdair Thanisch Part IV Influences
10 Anxiety and influence: John Derricke’s Image of Irelande and the Mirror for Magistrates tradition Scott Lucas
11 ‘Patternes of rebellion’: Derricke’s rebel poems Elisabeth Chaghafi
12 Irish apocalypse: Derricke, Dürer, and Foxe Thomas Herron
13 Clothed with variety: discovering the formal and figurative texture of John Derricke’s Image of Irelande Matthew Woodcock
14 Why read between the lines?: Derricke, paratext, and poetic reception Denna J. Iammarino
15 John Derricke, Edmund Spenser, and the white wand of justice and equity William O’Neil
16 ‘Aspice spectator sic me docuere parentes’: aesthetico-political misprision in Derricke’s A Discoverie of Woodkarne Thomas Cartelli
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About the author
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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