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A rich, persuasive, and intelligently conceptualized account of intersections of genre and nation.-- ""Aileen Douglas, Trinity College Dublin"" Synthesizes critical literature on English criminal narratives, picaresque novels, and 'ramble fictions' with cultural and literary history and literary criticism focused on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland.-- ""Clíona Ó Gallchoir, University College Cork"" This wide-ranging study expands the growing body of scholarly work on the emergence of a distinctively Irish prose fiction in the long eighteenth century, while offering a nuanced exploration of the unexpected role the Irish rogue narrative played in contesting English prejudices about Ireland.-- ""Ian Ross, Emeritus Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin""

This wide-ranging study expands the growing body of scholarly work on the emergence of a distinctively Irish prose fiction in the long eighteenth century, while offering a nuanced exploration of the unexpected role the Irish rogue narrative played in contesting English prejudices about Ireland.--Ian Ross, Emeritus Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin A rich, persuasive, and intelligently conceptualized account of intersections of genre and nation.--Aileen Douglas, Trinity College Dublin Synthesizes critical literature on English criminal narratives, picaresque novels, and 'ramble fictions' with cultural and literary history and literary criticism focused on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland.--Cliona O Gallchoir, University College Cork

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Joe Lines completed his PhD in English at Queen's University, Belfast. His research on the early Irish novel has been published in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, and the edited volume Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-1780.

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