Cogan, Lucy (2016) Sarah Butler’s Irish Tales, a Jacobite Romance. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 29 (1). pp. 1-22. ISSN 0840-6286
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Abstract
Sarah Butler’s Irish Tales, published in 1716, is a romance set
against the historical background of Brian Boru’s victory against
the Vikings in 1014. Given the timing of its publication, a year
after the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, the work has been read as an
allegorical expression of pro-Jacobite sympathy. Yet the tragic
romance dominates the work, complicating this interpretation.
This article argues that the combination of fictionalized history
and romance found in Irish Tales shows the work to be part of a
tradition of romance writing by women in support of the royalist
or Jacobite cause. Moreover, this article considers how the heroic
role played by the female protagonist in these works represents an
aesthetic and political response to the failure to restore James ii and
his issue to the throne.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Sarah Butler; Irish Tales; Jacobite Romance; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > English |
Item ID: | 15852 |
Identification Number: | 10.3138/ecf.29.1.1 |
Depositing User: | Lucy Cogan |
Date Deposited: | 22 Apr 2022 10:27 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Eighteenth-Century Fiction |
Refereed: | Yes |
URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/15852 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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