Ireland and Romanticism

Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-27457-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aesthetic appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the importance of Ireland to wider currents in Romanticism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kelly, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; J.Kelly Part I: Scenes: The Country and the City Cín Lae Amhlaoibh: Modernization and the Irish language; P.Ó Drisceoil Jemmy O'Brien: Informer to Gothic Villain; T.Webb Part II: Influences from Abroad Spanish Literature and Irish Romanticism, 1800-1850; A.MacCarthy Robert Burns and Hibernia; S.Dornan Part III: The Irish Writer Abroad 'Transatlantic Tom': Thomas Moore in North America; J.Moore A United Irishman in the Alps: William MacNevin's A Ramble Through Swisserland (1803); P.Vincent Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) and the Politics of Romanticism; S.Egenolf Part IV: Irish Poetry in the Romantic Period Drawing Breath: The Origin of Moore's Irish Melodies; A.Paterson Malvina's Daughters: Irish Women Poets and the Sign of the Bard; L.Davis Part V: Fictions of the Romantic Period The Irish Booktrade in the Romantic Period; C.Benson 'Gothic' and 'National'? Challenging the Formal Distinctions of Irish Romantic Fiction; C.Morin Escaping from Barrett's Moon: Recreating the Irish Literary Landscape in the Romantic Period; J.Shanahan Afterword: Placing 'Irish' and 'Romanticism' in the Same Frame: Prospects; S.Behrendt Index

Über Autor(innen)

STEPHEN BEHRENDT George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, USA

CHARLES BENSON Keeper of Early Printed Books at the Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
LEITH DAVIS Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada

STEPHEN DORNAN Research Fellow at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK

SUSAN EGENOLF Lecturer in English at Texas A&M University, USA

ANNE MACCARTHY Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain

JANE MOORE Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, UK

CHRISTINA MORIN Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast, UK

PROINSIAS Ó DRISCEOIL received his PhD from NUI, Galway, Ireland

ADRIAN PATERSON Postdoctoral Fellow at NUI Galway, Ireland

JIM SHANAHAN IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

PATRICK VINCENT Director of the English Department at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

TIMOTHY WEBB Emeritus Professor in the Department of English, University of Bristol, UK