British and Irish Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
Gower, John
Siân Echard
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
John Gower Introduction John Gower (d. 1408) cared deeply about his legacy. Nearly thirty of the surviving manuscripts of his works include th...
Gray, Thomas
Adam Rounce
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Thomas Gray Introduction Thomas Gray (b. 1716–d. 1771) is one of the most significant English poets from the time of Alexander Pope’s death to...
Gunpowder Plot (1605), The
Robert Appelbaum
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
The Gunpowder Plot (1605)IntroductionThe Gunpowder Plot, or Powder Treason, of 1605 was an attempt by a conspiracy of a dozen Catholic Englishman to c...
Hardy, Thomas
Karin Koehler
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
Thomas HardyIntroductionThomas Hardy was born in Lower Bockhampton, Dorset, in 1840 and, with brief interruptions, continued to live in and around Dor...
Heaney, Seamus
Eugene O'Brien
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Seamus HeaneyIntroductionSeamus Heaney (b. 13 April 1939–d. 30 August 2013), Nobel Prize winner in 1995, is possibly the foremost poet in the English-...
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Chris Stamatakis
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Henry Howard, Earl of SurreyIntroductionEnjoying the dubious honor in ancestral history of being the last person executed during Henry VIII’s reign, H...
Herbert, George
Chauncey Wood
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
George Herbert Introduction A few months after George Herbert’s death in 1633 his friend Nicholas Ferrar took a manuscript of his English poem...
Highlands, The
Murray Pittock
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
The HighlandsIntroductionThe “Highlands” is a key imagined space in British literature, art, and culture. The lasting power of the region—or rather, t...
Hogg, James
Gillian Hughes
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
James HoggIntroductionJames Hogg (b. 1770–d. 1835) was known as the Ettrick Shepherd because of his original occupation as a shepherd and the place of...
Holmes, Sherlock
Camilla Ulleland Hoel
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Sherlock Holmes Introduction Sherlock Holmes is possibly the most immediately recognizable character in all of fiction. This is perhaps due to...
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Emily Merriman
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Gerard Manley HopkinsIntroductionDespite his relatively few poems, almost none published while he was alive, Gerard M. Hopkins (b. 1844–d. 1889) is a ...
Hurd, Richard
Andreas Mueller, Lucy Cooper
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Richard HurdIntroductionRichard Hurd (b. 1720–d. 1808) was a prominent 18th-century Anglican clergyman and influential literary scholar. Hurd’s most p...
Ireland and Memory Studies
Oona Frawley
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Ireland and Memory StudiesIntroductionBecause Irish memory studies takes shape in the context of the international field of memory studies, it cannot ...
Irish Crime Fiction
Brian Cliff
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Irish Crime FictionIntroductionIrish crime fiction is still an emerging field of study. Much of the scholarship concerns Northern Ireland, though that...
Irish Famine, Writing of the
Marguérite Corporaal
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Writing of the Irish Famine Introduction The commemoration in the mid-1990s of Ireland’s Great Irish Famine (also called the Great Hunger) (18...
Irish Gothic Tradition
Jarlath Killeen
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Irish Gothic TraditionIntroduction“The Irish Gothic” or “Irish gothic”? Choice of term here is important, as critical discussion of the appearance of ...
Irish Life Writing
Muireann Leech
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Irish Life WritingIntroductionAlthough the term life writing could encompass autobiographies, biographies, hagiographies, memoirs, diaries, journals, ...
Irish Modernism
Lauren Arrington
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Irish Modernism Introduction Irish modernism is an emerging field in literary studies. Historically, scholars have had a critical reticence to...
Irish Poetry of the First World War
Gerald Dawe
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
Irish Poetry of the First World WarIntroductionIn his poem “On Being Asked for a War Poem” (1915), the Nobel laureate W. B. Yeats (b. 1865–d. 1939) ex...
Irish Short Story, The
Heather Ingman
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
The Irish Short StoryIntroductionThe modernity of the short story as a form is complicated in Ireland by the long-perceived relationship with the trad...
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