Irish literature in transition, 1780-1830 / edited by Claire Connolly, National University of Ireland, Cork.

"There can be few places better to begin to trace the fluid entanglements of literature and history circa 1800 than with the case of Robert Emmet's rebellion. Despite the suppression of the United Irish rebellion and the passing of the Act of Union, the legacies of violence continued into...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Connolly, Claire (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Irish literature in transition ; Volume 2
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title page
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Series Preface
  • General Acknowledgements
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Making Maps: Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830
  • Part I Origins
  • Chapter 1 Gaelic Literature in Transition, 1780-1830
  • Chapter 2 Irish Literature and Classical Modes
  • Part II Transitions
  • Chapter 3 Irish Literary Theory: From Politeness to Politics
  • Chapter 4 Whigs, Weavers, and Fire-Worshippers: Anglophone Irish Poetry in Transition
  • Chapter 5 Metropolitan Theatre
  • Chapter 6 Harps and Pepperpots, Songs and Pianos: Music and Irish Poetry
  • Chapter 7 Enlightened Ulster, Romantic Ulster: Irish Magazine Culture of the Union Era
  • Part III Reputations
  • Chapter 8 Placing Mary Tighe in Irish Literary History: From Manuscript Culture to Print
  • Chapter 9 Edgeworth and Realism
  • Chapter 10 Lady Morgan and 'the babbling page of history': Cultural Transition as Performance in the Irish National Tale
  • Chapter 11 'The diabolical eloquence of horror': Maturin's Wanderings
  • Chapter 12 English Ireland/Irish Ireland: the Poetry and Translations of J.J. Callanan
  • Chapter 13 Thomas Moore and the Social Life of Forms
  • Chapter 14 'English, Irished': Union and Violence in the Fiction of John and Michael Banim
  • Chapter 15 The Transition of Reputation: Gerald Griffin
  • Chapter 16 William Maginn: the Cork Correspondent
  • Part IV Futures
  • Chapter 17 'My country takes her place among the nations of the earth': Ireland and the British Archipelago in the Age of the Union
  • Chapter 18 Mentalities in Transition: Irish Romanticism in European Context
  • Chapter 19 Ireland and Empire: Popular Fiction in the Wake of the Union
  • Chapter 20 Transatlantic Influences and Futures
  • Chapter 21 The Literary Legacies of Irish Romanticism
  • Index