Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830
Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830
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USDThe years between 1780 and 1830 are vital decades in the history of Irish writing in English. This book charts the confluence of Enlightenment, antiquarian, and romantic energies within Irish literary culture and shows how different writers and genres absorbed, dispersed and remade those interests during five decades of political change. During those same years, literature made its own history. By the 1840s, Irish writing formed a recognizable body of work, which later generations would draw on, quote, anthologize and dispute. Questions raised by novels, poems and plays of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the politics of language and voice; the relationship between literature and locality; the possibility of literature as a profession - resonated for many Irish writers over the centuries that followed and continue to matter today. This comprehensive volume will be a key reference for scholars and students of Irish literature and romantic literary studies.
- Features a combination of historical, thematic, and author-based chapters
- Will help readers locate Irish literature within a global historical context
- The first account of the emergence of modern Irish literature as a distinct cultural category
Reviews & endorsements
‘I highly recommend this rich and valuable book to anyone interested in Irish nineteenth-century literature, in romanticism-or simply in brilliant analysis brilliantly expressed.’ Patrick R. O'Malley, Review 19
‘Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830 is an invaluable collection, of interest to all scholars of the Romantic period. Confirming the need to read beyond the nation, this volume's contributions successfully redraw the map of Irish literary history, offering innovative and invigorating new avenues of research.’ Anne-Claire Michoux, The BARS Review
‘Transition is opportunity, innovation, and critical necessity. Connolly has assembled and modelled an innovative range of essays which will set future research into motion.’ Rebecca Anne Barr, Romantic Circles
‘This is an extraordinary achievement, a hugely enjoyable and instructive read. It does not leave Irish Studies as it found it, instead renovating and extending the subject.’ Anthony Roche, Irish Times
‘… show[s] how an attention to Irish writing can transform how we understand key concepts like romanticism; literary genres like realism, the gothic, ballads; political formations like empire and the transatlantic slave trade; and periodical culture. I highly recommend these books to scholars interested in learning more about Ireland as well as to established scholars of Irish literature.’ Mary L. Mullen, Nineteenth-Century Contexts
‘This is an indispensable collection for scholars and students of Irish studies and Romantic studies alike.’ Colleen English, Irish Studies Review
‘… Connolly’s book’s self-professed goal of 'reorienting our understanding of Irish literature' remains an essential task even after decades of significant developments. I imagine that a work of this quality might be able to achieve that goal, as well.’ Brian C. Cooney, European Romantic Review
Product details
April 2020Hardback
9781108492980
456 pages
237 × 159 × 29 mm
0.76kg
1 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Making maps, Irish literature in transition, 1780–1830 Claire Connolly
- Part I. Origins:
- 1. Gaelic literature in transition 1780–1830 Lesa Nà Mhunghaile
- 2. Irish literature and classical modes Norman Vance
- Part II. Transitions:
- 3. Conceptual frameworks: Irish literary theory, from politeness to politics Julia M. Wright
- 4. Whigs, weavers and fire-worshippers: anglophone Irish poetry in transition Matthew Campbell
- 5. Metropolitan theatre David O'Shaughnessy
- 6. Harps and pepperpots, songs and pianos: music and Irish poetry Adrian Paterson
- 7. Enlightened Ulster, Romantic Ulster: Irish magazine culture of the Union era Jennifer Orr
- Part III. Reputations:
- 8. Placing Mary Tighe in Irish literary history: from manuscript culture to print Harriet Kramer Linkin
- 9. Edgeworth and realism James Chandler
- 10. Lady Morgan and 'the babbling page of history': cultural transition as performance in the Irish national tale Nicola Lloyd
- 11. 'The diabolical eloquence of horror': Maturin's wanderings Jim Kelly
- 12. English Ireland/Irish Ireland: the poetry and translations of J. J. Callanan Gregory A. Schirmer
- 13. Thomas Moore and the social life of forms Jane Moore
- 14. 'English, Irished': Union and violence in the fiction of John and Michael Banim Willa Murphy
- 15. The transition of reputation: Gerald Griffin Mark Corcoran
- 16. William Maginn: the Cork correspondent David E. Latané
- Part IV. Futures:
- 17. 'My country takes her place among the nations of the earth': Ireland and the British archipelago in the age of the Union Murray Pittock
- 18. Mentalities in transition: Irish Romanticism in European context Joep Leerssen
- 19. Ireland and Empire: popular fiction in the wake of the Union Sonja Lawrenson
- 20. Transatlantic influences and futures Joseph Rezek
- 21. The literary legacies of Irish Romanticism Fiona Stafford.
