"OUR FELLOW-CREATURES": WOMEN NARRATING POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE 1798 IRISH REBELLION Academic Article

abstract

• Protestant women's narratives of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, though few in number, constitute a different and valuable genre of rebellion narrative. Their perspective from the interior of a permeable domestic sphere offers more complex and nuanced versions of the rebellion than those found in the male-authored histories. The women's narratives consistently eschew a systematic dehumanization of the insurgents and considerably complicate the prevailing image of the "savage" rebels. Attending to their voices changes our notion of warfare and what it means to participate in a war, underscoring the extent to which civil warfare disrupts and reconfigures gender and class roles and thwarts easy moral determinations.

authors

• Egenolf, Susan

published proceedings

• EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

author list (cited authors)

• Egenolf, S. B.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Egenolf, Susan B

publication date

• December 2009

publisher

• Johns Hopkins University Press  Publisher

keywords

• 16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions
• 47 Language, Communication And Culture
• 4705 Literary Studies
• 5 Gender Equality

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1353/ecs.0.0038

start page

• 217

end page

• +

volume

• 42

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.0.0038

user-defined tag

• 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
• 5 Gender Equality