NEW BOOK: Irish Materialisms – The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690–1830

Colleen Taylor | Oxford University Press Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690–1830 is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the Irish peasantry’s subversive entanglement with nonhuman materiality. Each of the chapters engages a focused case study

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