Description: Endangered Masculinities in Irish Poetry analyses the emergence and transformation of endangered masculinity through a sequence of close readings of compelling poetic texts in genres including bardic elegy and satire, aisling (or vision poem), accentual verse, song, oral lament, and comic verse, with accompanying translations, to provide a novel literary-critical exposition of a vibrant and understudied poetic tradition. Drawing on feminist, postcolonial, and gender theories, Sarah McKibben argues for the ideological, representational and linguistic complexity of early modern Irish poetry as at once contesting and engaging the colonial authority it faced.
