Cork University Press: New Book Circe's Cup

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

A new book announcement on writing in Early Modern Ireland

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Dear All

Cork University Press has just published this new book which investigates
the role that writing played in transforming early modern Irish culture. You
can purchase this book at EUR19 a saving of EUR5.5 plus free postage if you
email me with your contact details on marketingcup at ucc.ie before the end of
April.


Circe's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland

By Clare Carroll

A radical new assessment of cultural transformation and conflict in early
modern Ireland.

Published April, 2nd 2002
1 85918 327 1, Paperback, EUR24.50, 234 x 156, 240pp
(US Rights: University of Notre Dame Press)

Series: Critical Conditions/Field Day Essays and Monographs

Subject Classification: Early Modern European Studies/Irish Cultural History

Market: Academic and Undergraduate

Key Features:
* Cutting edge research on early modern Ireland
* New perspectives on colonial theory
* Part of the acclaimed Critical Conditions/Field Day Essays and Monographs
series

Description:

Both Old and New English writers used the metaphor of 'Circe's cup' to
conjure up the bewitching, seductive, and corrupting influence that they
attributed to Irish culture. This metaphor for the loss of human identity -
men turned to swine through intercourse with a corrupting female outsider -
works as a part of the ethnographic rhetoric that attempts to establish the
fixed difference of English versus Irish, and civilian versus barbarian in
order to rationalize political and economic domination. The events through
which such domination was achieved and resisted - the plantations, wars, and
consequent social upheavals of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries - constitute the transformation analysed in this book. The
cultural changes negotiated in early modern texts on Ireland both give
testimony to these events and provide perspectives on them. The eight essays
gathered together in this volume investigate the role that writing played in
transforming early modern Irish culture - ranging from the analysis of
ethnography, to translation, to political philosophy.

Circe's Cup offers a challenging comparative analysis of early modern
Ireland - across discourses, disciplines, cultures and languages. The modes
of discourse examined here include those controlling differences of gender,
religion, and ethnicity. Works of history, poetry, philology and political
philosophy are read side by side in terms of how they represent cultural
change. Rather than focus solely on English language sources, this study
also takes Irish language writing into account. Rather than set Irish and
English writers against each other in some kind of false dichotomy, this
study compares and contrasts their work to that by French, Spanish, and
Italian authors. These essays argue for the need to see similarities between
Irish and English texts, in part due to their common European sources, and
at the same time not to obscure the sharp and often irreconcilable
differences between certain interpretations of these sources.

Professor Clare Carroll is Chair of the Comparative Literature Department in
Queens College, City University of New York.


Thank You

Mike Collins
Sales & Marketing Manager

Cork University Press/Attic Press
Crawford Business Park, Crosses Green
Cork, Ireland
Tel: + 353 (0)21 4902980
Fax: + 353 (0)21 4315329
http://www.corkuniversitypress.com
http://www.iol.ie/~atticirl/

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