Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume V

The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-924911-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 774 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1312 g

The Oxford History of the Irish Book is a major new series that charts one of the most venerable book cultures in Europe, from the earliest manuscript compilations to the flourishing book industries of the late twentieth century. For the first time, it offers a history of the Irish book as a created object situated in a world of communications, trade, transport, power, and money, and examines the ways in which books have both reflected and influenced social, political, and intellectual formations in Ireland. It is an important project for the understanding of Ireland's written and printed heritage, and is by its nature of profound cross-cultural significance, embracing as it does all the written and printed traditions and heritages of Ireland and placing them in the global context of a worldwide interest in book histories.

Books have played a role of key importance in shaping Ireland's twentieth century cultural and political heritage. Volume V: The Irish Book in English 1891-2000 charts that heritage from the beginnings of the Literary Revival in the 1890s to the end of the twentieth century.

Part One consists of general survey chapters which examine developments in the cultures of Irish reading and publishing during the twentieth century. These chapters cover four specific periods, divided as follows: 1891-1921 covering the Literary Revival, and the often turbulent developments which led to the partition of the island; 1922-1939 looking at the social, economic and political machinations of print culture amidst an atmosphere of intense cultural conservatism, and during the so called economic 'war'; 1939-1969 examining the difficulties which Irish publishers continued to face, as well as the popular trends of reading 'Westerns'; 1969-2000 looking at the renewal of the Irish publishing industry, and the growth of cultural self-confidence which came about as literary censorship receded into the past.

Part Two examines some of the thematic issues raised in these survey chapters, including the financial and market factors governing the Irish book trade; the concerns of Irish regional publishing; the creation and reception of Irish books in the US and Australia; censorship; the Irish book in the informatics age; and publishing for Catholic Ireland.

Part Three is concerned with assessing the specific achievements of some of Ireland's most culturally significant publishing houses, and includes chapters on Gill and Macmillan; the Cuala Press; Maunsel and Company; the Dolmen Press; the Gallery Press and Blackstaff Press. This section also includes chapters on two British firms which have done much to support Irish writers: Macmillan and Faber.

The book concludes with a bibliographical chapter outlining 'Sources for Irish Book History, 1891-2000'. This is the first attempt to comprehensively outline the history of twentieth century Irish book culture, and will be the standard guide for many years to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutton, Clare

Walsh, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations

- Notes on Contributors

- Introduction

- I. THE CULTURES OF IRISH PUBLISHING AND READING

- 1: Clare Hutton: Publishing the Irish Cultural Revival, 1891-1922

- 2: Ben Levitas: Reading and the Irish Revival, 1891-1922

- 3: Nicholas Allen and Terence Brown: Publishing after Partition, 1922-1939

- 4: Nicholas Allen: Reading Revolutions, 1922-1939

- 5: Gabriel Doherty and Gillian M. Doherty: 'Some Measure of Vocation': Publishing in Ireland, 1939-1969

- 6: Frank Shovlin: From Tucson to Television: Irish Reading, 1939-1969

- 7: Siobhán Holland: 'Our Literary History in the Making': The Persistence of the Literary Press, 1969-2000

- 8: Ronán McDonald: 'Anything about Ireland?' Reading in Ireland, 1969-2000

- II: THEMATIC SURVEYS

- 9: Tony Farmar: An Eye to Business: Financial and Market Factors, 1895-1995

- 10: Andrew McCarthy: Publishing for Catholic Ireland

- 11: Gillian McIntosh: Funding Literary Enterprise and Publishing in Ireland

- 12: Donal Ó Drisceoil: A Dark Chapter: Censorship and the Irish Writer

- 13: Mary N. Harris: Parochial, National and Universal: The Concerns of Irish Regional Publishing

- 14: Patrick Walsh: The Political Economy of Irish School Books

- 15: Pat Donlon: Books for Irish Children

- 16: Nicola Gordon Bowe: The Iconic Book in Ireland, 1891-1930

- 17: Robert Keating O'Neill: The Irish Book in the United States: An Overview

- 18: Patrick Buckridge: The Harp in the South: Reading Ireland in Australia

- 19: Bruce Stewart: 'The Medium is the Message': The Irish Book in the Informatics Age

- III: PUBLISHER CASE STUDIES

- 20: Warwick Gould: ”Our Irish Canon Your Irish Canon”: Macmillan's Irish List, 1899-1968

- 21: Gillian McIntosh: M. H. Gill, later Gill and Macmillan

- 22: Gifford Lewis: 'This terrible struggle with want of means': Behind the Scenes at The Cuala Press

- 23: Clare Hutton: The Extraordinary History of the House of Maunsel

- 24: Ruth Ling: Faber and Irish Literature

- 25: Derval Tubridy: 'A Hazardous Venture': The Dolmen Press

- 26: Colleen McKenna: The Gallery Press

- 27: Eamonn Hughes: The Blackstaff Press

- IV. SOURCES

- 28: Patrick Walsh: Sources for Irish Book History, 1891-2000

- APPENDICES

- A: Donal Ó Drisceoil: Irish Books Banned under the Censorship of Publications Acts, 1929-67

- B: Warwick Gould: The Macmillan Archive and Irish Writers

- C: Jonathan Williams: Minding Other People's Business: Literary Agents in Ireland since 1986

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Clare Hutton is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, and has published in the field of twentieth century Irish book history, and Irish literature. She was educated at the Universities of London, Dublin and Oxford, and has held appointments in Cambridge and London. She currently holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and is undertaking research on the genesis of Joyce's Ulysses.

Patrick Walsh is Senior Lecturer in Education at Queen's University Belfast, and has published on various topics relating to education and curriculum formation in Ireland.