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Hardcover Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History Book

ISBN: 0815630441

ISBN13: 9780815630449

Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History

(Part of the Irish Studies, Syracuse University Press Series)

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British writers from Cambrensis to Spenser depicted Ireland as a remote border land inhabited by wild descendants of Asian Scythiansbarbarians to the ancient Greeks. Contemporaneous Irish writers likewise borrowed classical traditions, imagining the Orient as an ancient homeland. Lennon traces Irish Orientalism through origin legends, philology, antiquarianism, historiography into Irish literature and culture, exploring the works of Keating, O'Flaherty,...

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