Irish Literature in Transition, 1700–1780
Volume 1
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- Editor: Moyra Haslett, Queen's University Belfast
- Date Published: March 2020
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This volume examines eighteenth-century Irish literature, highlighting the diversity of texts, authors and approaches that characterises contemporary studies of the period. Chapters consider the contexts of history, politics, language, philosophy, gender, sexuality, and the environment while situating Irish literature in relation to Ireland, Britain, Europe and beyond. Well-known authors (Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith) are read alongside less familiar writers (including Mary Barber, William Chaigneau, Frances Sheridan, and Samuel Whyte) and popular and ephemeral literatures take their place with formerly canonical texts. It demonstrates the exciting vitality and richness of eighteenth-century Irish literature - written and performed - as well as its complex intersections with different communities and traditions. This book will be a key resource to scholars and students of Irish eighteenth-century studies as well as readers generally interested in questions of Anglophone and Irish-language culture, representations of gender and sexuality, and national and trans-national identities.
Read more- Includes considerations of contemporary topics, such as gender and sexuality, environmentalism, and trans-cultural and trans-national dimensions
- Captures the excitement of the field with the study of less familiar authors
- Showcases the diversity of texts, authors, and approaches characterizing contemporary studies
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'This set will be valuable for those interested in the rich Irish literary tradition, including those desiring to reach beyond accepted historical narratives … Highly recommended.' M. Knight, Choice
See more reviews'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times
'This edited collection of nineteen articles by an impressive range of contributors highlights the current trends and values in Irish eighteenth-century scholarship … One of the strengths of this particular volume is that it is aimed at not only those with an interest in Irish literature, but also those interested in eighteenth-century writing generally … the variety of material, writers, and approaches means that even readers familiar with many of these writers will find much that is new and striking. These essays bring neglected writing and writers to the fore and shed new light on others. Most significantly, these essays help to reveal the richness, complexity, and sophistication of this period in Irish letters. The real strength of these essays might be in the way they allow this writing and the issues raised to have new life and significance today.' Jim Shanahan, Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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- Date Published: March 2020
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781108670326
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Table of Contents
Part I. Starting Points:
1. Starting-points and moving targets: transition and the early modern Marie-Louise Coolahan
2. 'We Irish': writing and national identity from Berkeley to Burke Ian Campbell Ross
3. Re-viewing Swift Brean Hammond
Part II. Philosophical and Political Frameworks:
4. The prejudices of Enlightenment David Dwan
5. The Molyneux problem and Irish Enlightenment Darrell Jones
6. Samuel Whyte and the politics of eighteenth-century Irish private theatricals Helen M. Burke
Part III. Local, National and Transnational Contexts:
7. Land and landscape in Irish poetry in English, 1700–1780 Andrew Carpenter
8. The idea of an eighteenth-century national theatre Conrad Brunström
9. Transnational influence and exchange: the intersections between Irish and French sentimental novels Amy Prendergast
10. 'An example to the whole world': patriotism and imperialism in early Irish fiction Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
Part IV. Gender and Sexuality:
11. The province of poetry: women poets in early eighteenth-century Ireland Aileen Douglas
12. Queering eighteenth-century Irish writing: Yahoo, Fribble, Freke Declan Kavanagh
13. 'Brightest wits and bravest soldiers': Ireland, masculinity, and the politics of paternity Rebecca Anne Barr
14. Fictions of sisterhood in eighteenth-century Irish literature Moyra Haslett
Part V. Transcultural Contexts:
15. The popular criminal narrative and the development of the Irish novel Joe Lines
16. Gaelic influences and echoes in the Irish novel, 1700–1780 Anne Markey
17. New beginning or bearer of tradition? Early Irish fiction and the construction of the child Clíona Ó Gallchoir
Part VI. Retrospective Readings:
18. Re-imagining feminist protest in contemporary translation: The Lament for art O'Leary and The Midnight Court Lesa Ní Mhunghaile
19. 'Our darkest century': the Irish eighteenth century in memory and modernity James Ward.
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