English Literature and the Ulster Crises of the Seventeenth Century

英国文学与十七世纪的阿尔斯特危机

• 批准号: AH/I001719/1
• 负责人: David Coleman
• 金额: $ 4.25万
• 依托单位: Nottingham Trent University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI001719%2F1
• 关键词: English; Literature; Ulster; Crises; Seventeenth

Recent research by Highley (2008), Kerrigan (2008), Maley (2002), and Schwyzer (2004) has convincingly argued that early modern English literature was often composed in an 'archipelagic' context: that is, with a newly developing sense of the interconnectedness of the various islands and regions of 'Britain.' Nevertheless, little critical attention has been paid to the most fiercely contested region of the archipelago, the north of Ireland. A series of related crises unfold in Ulster throughout the course of the seventeenth century, including the almost total disappearance of aristocratic Gaelic culture, the Anglo-Scottish Plantation, the Rising of 1641, and the Siege of Derry. As an archipelagic context makes clear, these are not insular phenomena but are instead related to the ongoing religious and political upheavals across the island grouping. But the footprint left on English literature by the Ulster crises of the seventeenth century has not to date been investigated in a rigorous manner. This project aims to explore both the English-language texts written or circulated in seventeenth-century Ulster, and those which comment on the situation from other regions of the archipelago. In doing so, it aims both to elucidate in more detail the relationship between literary production and the various identities forged along political, religious and ethnic lines in Ulster, and to examine the political significance of literary engagements with the Ulster crises in other parts of the archipelago. The monograph will consist of seven chapters. Chapter One, 'Introduction: Archipelagic Regions / Localising Ulster,' will serve as a theoretical and methodological introduction to the monograph. Chapter Two, 'Staging the O'Neill: The Nine Years War and the Flight of the Earls,' will examine the large body of texts concerning the controversial figure of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Plays and poems beyond Shakespeare's Henry V engage with O'Neill and the Nine Years War; moreover, most critics have failed to engage in detail with O'Neill's Jacobean exploits, including his flight from Ireland, and attempts to raise continental military support. Chapter Three, 'Planting Empir(e)icism: Writing the Ulster Plantation,' will pay attention to the texts composed around 1609-10 - including the work of Francis Bacon, Thomas Blenerhasset, John Speed, and the fashion for British Romance on the London stage - to argue that the Plantation of Ulster left a greater mark on metropolitan English literary culture than has hitherto been realised. Chapter Four, 'Episcopal Identities: Archipelagic Armagh,' will examine in detail seventeenth-century disputes about the cultural and ecclesiastical centrality of the city of Armagh to the province of Ulster and the island of Ireland. Chapter Five, 'Bringing Milton to a Head: The Aftermath of 1641,' will build on the growing recognition among Milton scholars that the representation of the rebellion of Lucifer in Paradise Lost is in part conditioned by Milton's reaction to the 1641 rising in Ulster. Chapter Six, 'Sieging the Initiative: London-Derry and the Anglo-Irish,' will examine literary representations of, and reactions to, the Siege of Derry. Critics have too frequently made the mistake of treating the Siege of Derry as a primal scene, as the beginning of a set of political relationships in the archipelago. This chapter aims to shift the critical emphasis by relocating the literary response to the Siege in the context of the seventeenth-century Ulster genre of 'crisis narrative'. Chapter Seven, 'Epilogue: Redefining the Ulster Canon,' will argue that critics of Ulster literature have, perhaps understandably, been distracted by the political crises of the twentieth century, particularly Partition and 'the troubles': as such, the canon of Ulster literature has been unnecessarily foreshortened. This chapter willargue that the notion of "Ulster literature" has a longer, though less traumatic, history.

Highley（2008），Kerrigan（2008），Maley（2002）和Schwyzer（2004）的最新研究令人信服地认为，早期的现代英语文学经常是在“群岛”的背景下构成的：也就是说，具有新的发展的感觉。 “英国”各个岛屿和地区的相互联系。然而，对爱尔兰北部群岛最激烈的地区最激烈的地区的批判性关注很少。在整个17世纪的整个过程中，阿尔斯特（Ulster）的一系列相关危机包括，包括贵族盖尔文化的几乎完全消失，盎格鲁 - 苏格兰种植园，1641年的上升和德里的围困。正如群岛的环境所表明的那样，这些不是孤立的现象，而是与整个岛上群体持续的宗教和政治动荡有关的。但是，十七世纪阿尔斯特危机留下的英语文学所留下的足迹并没有以严格的方式进行调查。该项目旨在探讨17世纪阿尔斯特（Ulster）编写或分发的英语文本，以及对群岛其他地区的情况发表评论的文本。这样一来，它旨在更详细地阐明文学作品与阿尔斯特（Ulster）政治，宗教和族裔界面的各种身份之间的关系，并研究文学危机与阿尔斯特危机在其他地区的政治意义群岛。该专着将由七个章节组成。第一章“简介：群岛地区 /本地乌尔斯特”将作为专着的理论和方法论介绍。第二章，“在奥尼尔（O'Neill）进行：九年战争和伯爵的飞行”，将研究有关泰隆伯爵休·奥尼尔（Hugh O'Neill）有争议的人物的大量文本。莎士比亚的亨利五世之外的戏剧和诗歌与奥尼尔和九年战争互动；此外，大多数批评家未能与奥尼尔（O'Neill）的雅各布（Jacobean）剥削（包括他从爱尔兰的航班）进行细节，并试图提高大陆军事支持。第三章，“种植经验（e）icism：写阿尔斯特种植园”，将注意1609 - 10年左右构成的文本 - 包括弗朗西斯·培根（Francis Bacon），托马斯·布莱纳哈赛（Thomas Blenerhasset）的作品伦敦舞台 - 争辩说，阿尔斯特的种植园在大都会的英国文学文化上留下了比迄今为止实现的更大的印记。第四章，“主教身份：群岛的阿尔玛”，将详细审查十七世纪的争议，内容涉及阿尔·阿尔斯特省和爱尔兰岛的阿尔玛市的文化和教会中心地位。第五章“将米尔顿的头部降临到1641年的后果”将基于米尔顿学者的日益认识，即在失去天堂的路西法叛乱的代表部分是基于米尔顿对1641年在阿尔斯特（Ulster）崛起的反应。第六章，“围攻倡议：伦敦 - 德里和盎格鲁 - 爱尔兰”，将研究对德里的围困的文学代表和反应。批评家经常犯了将围攻德里作为原始场景的错误，这是群岛一组政治关系的开始。本章旨在通过在17世纪的“危机叙事”的阿尔斯特（Ulster）类型的背景下搬迁对围攻的文学反应来改变批判性重点。第七章，“结语：重新定义阿尔斯特佳能”，将争辩说，批评阿尔斯特文学的批评者也许已经被20世纪的政治危机分散了注意力，尤其是分区和“麻烦”：因此，Ulster的佳能是Ulster的佳能。文学已经不必要地预言了。本章威尔格（Willague）认为，“阿尔斯特文学”的概念的历史较长，但造成了更少的创伤。