Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830: Volume 2

Cambridge University Press, 3/12/2020
EAN 9781108492980, ISBN10: 1108492983

Hardcover, 456 pages, 23.1 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The 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.

Making maps, Irish literature in transition, 1780–1830 Claire Connolly
Part I. Origins
1. Gaelic literature in transition 1780–1830 Lesa Ní 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.