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Irish Literature in Transition, 1830–1880

Volume 3

Part of Irish Literature in Transition

Editor: Matthew Campbell, University of York

Matthew Campbell, Jim Kelly, Melissa Fegan, Cóilín Parsons, Marguerite Corporaal, Colin Barr, Glenn Hooper, John McCourt, Jim Shanahan, James Quinn, Peter D. O'Neill, Nicholas Wolf, Norman Vance, Raphael Ingelbien, Anna Pilz, Shaun Richards, Stephanie Rains

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Date Published: April 2020
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108480482

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Ireland's experience in the nineteenth century was quite different from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in differing forms – like the gothic or historical novel – and its poetry and drama were populated with ballad and song. Its writers were by turns nationalist or unionist, anglophile or de-anglicising. If the effects of famine and emigration were catastrophic for mid-nineteenth-century Irish culture, they initiated a literary story that spread across the diaspora. Despite the decline of spoken Irish, literature continued to be published, while scholarly endeavours such as translation or the Ordnance Survey preserved much from the Gaelic past. This rich volume examines the many forms of new writing that thrived throughout this period. Utilizing a thematic and historical approach, it addresses a broad anglophone readership in Victorian literature. Essays consider the Irish authors in America and India, women's writing, and the resilience of Irish literature before the revival.
- Assesses the innovations and successes of nineteenth-century writing
- Offers an authoritative overview of nineteenth-century Irish literature
- Utilizes a thematic and historical approach, and addresses a broad anglophone readership in Victorian literature
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'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' 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
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- Date Published: April 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108480482
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Contexts and Contents: Politics and Periodicals:
1. Victorian Ireland, 1830–1880: a transition state Matthew Campbell
2. Satire, fiction and innovation between Dublin, Edinburgh and London Jim Kelly
3. Young Irelanders, Fenians, Land Leaguers: Young Ireland and beyond Melissa Fegan
Part II. Ireland and the Liberal Arts and Sciences:
4. Naming the place: the Ordnance Survey and its afterlives Cóilín Parsons
5. Political economy? The economics and sociology of famine Marguerite Corporaal
6. Newman's Irish University Colin Barr
7. The charms of Ireland: travel writing and tourism Glenn Hooper
Part III. From the Four Nations to the Globalising Irish:
8. England and Ireland, Tory and Whig: Thackeray, Trollope, Arnold John McCourt
9. The Irish in the Empire: Moore, Lever, Duffy Jim Shanahan
10. An exiled history: Mitchel to O'Leary James Quinn
11. The writing of Irish-America Peter D. O'Neill
Part IV. The Languages of Literature:
12. Antiquarians and authentics: survival and revival in Gaelic writing Nicholas Wolf
13. Poetry and its audiences: club, street, ballad Norman Vance
14. Gothic, allegory, realism: the Irish 'Victorian' novel Raphael Ingelbien
15. The rise of the woman writer Anna Pilz
16. Dion Boucicault and the globalized Irish stage Shaun Richards
17. The popular prints Stephanie Rains.
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Matthew Campbell, University of York
Matthew Campbell is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York. He is the author of Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry (1999) and Irish Poetry Under the Union (2013). He is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge, 2003) and The Voice of the People; the European Folk Revival (2012).
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Matthew Campbell, Jim Kelly, Melissa Fegan, Cóilín Parsons, Marguerite Corporaal, Colin Barr, Glenn Hooper, John McCourt, Jim Shanahan, James Quinn, Peter D. O'Neill, Nicholas Wolf, Norman Vance, Raphael Ingelbien, Anna Pilz, Shaun Richards, Stephanie Rains