Writing westwards: medieval English literature and its early modern Irish audiences

Quite a few texts from England were translated into Irish in the fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. The number of these texts was significant enough to suggest that foreign material of this sort enjoyed something of a vogue in late-medieval Ireland. Translated texts include Mandeville’s Travels, Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, Fierabras and a selection of saints’ lives. Scholars have paid little attention to the origins and initial readerships of these texts, but still less research has been conducted into their afterlife in early modern Ireland. However, a strikingly high number of these works continued to be read and copied well into the seventeenth century and some, such as the Irish translations of Octavian and William of Palerne, only survive in manuscripts from this later period. This paper takes these translations as a test case to explore the ways in which a cross-period approach to such writing is applicable in Ireland, a country where the renaissance is generally considered to have taken little hold. It considers the extent to which Irish reception of this translated material shifts and evolves in the course of this turbulent period and whether the same factors that contributed to the continued demand for a range of similar texts in England into the seventeenth century are also discernible in the Irish context.

The Jew in English literature : as author and as subject

Virginia, Univ., Diss., 1909

The Jew in early English literature

by H. Michelson

The bibliographer's manual of English literature containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold.

Vol. 6 has special title: Appendix to the Bibliographer's manual of English literature. Containing an account of books issued by literary and scientific societies and printing clubs; books printed at private presses; privately printed series; and the principal literary and scientific serials. Comp. by Henry G. Bohn ...

A history of English literature : A.D. 1714-1798.

Mode of access: Internet.

A catalogue of rare & curious books, illustrative of the English drama and early English literature ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, 13th June, 1859.

Consignor's name from BM English book sales, p. 286.

Inaugural addresses of Theodore W. Dwight, professor of law, and of George P. Marsh, professor of English literature, in Columbia college, New York.

Mode of access: Internet.

Syllabus. English literature and history ...

"References" pages 26-27.

Principles and methods of history of English literature: a critical comparative study of Taine's History of English literature, Courthope's History of poetry, and the History of early English literature by Stopford Brooke; (thesis submitted for the degree of M.L. University of California,) April 23. 1898.

Typewritten manuscript. Bibl. f. 4-5.