Irish Demons: English Writings on Ireland, the Irish, and Gender by Spenser and His Contemporaries.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-03

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Irish Demons: English Writings on Ireland, the Irish, and Gender by Spenser and his Contemporaries. By JOAN FITZPATRICK. Lanham, MD, New York, and Oxford: University Press of America. 2000. ix + 185 pp. $36.50. ISBN 0-761-81735-2.

Recently there have been a number of books and articles analysing the role that Ireland and the Irish played in Edmund Spenser's Anglocentric imagination, so many, perhaps that some critics now complain that the Irish question has swamped, dominated, and distorted any other form of approach to his writings. There is some force in this complaint, but that does not mean that we have heard the last word on the subject of that there is nothing left to...

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