Abstract
Anti-Catholicism was, in the words of one historian, the ‘single most salient feature’ in the mindset of eighteenth-century Ireland’s Anglican ruling class. This chapter traces one aspect of its expression in Ireland’s Anglophone literary culture. Throughout the period discussed in this chapter, anti-Catholicism was routinely and repeatedly articulated through opposition to ‘slavery’. From William King’s denunciation in 1691 of the ‘Slavery and Destruction designed against the Kingdom and Protestants of Ireland’ by James II to Jonathan Swift’s description of the country as a ‘land of slaves’ in 1727, the association was constant. Concentrating on the period between the defeat of James II in 1690 and Irish House of Lords’ ‘Report on the State of Popery’ in 1731, this chapter examines what exactly was meant by ‘slavery’ in such contexts and why it was rhetorically and conceptually intertwined with Catholicism.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000 |
Subtitle of host publication | Practices, Representations and Ideas |
Editors | Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, Geraldine Vaughan |
Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Chapter | 12 |
Pages | 199-216 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-42882-2 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-42881-5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 25 Aug 2020 |
Publication series
Name | Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000 |
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Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Keywords
- Ireland
- William King
- Jonathan Swift
- Robert Molesworth
- George Farquhar
- Slavery
- Anti-Catholicism
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James Ward
- School of Arts & Humanities - Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences - Lecturer
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