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"This volume explores the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century, and a crucial influence on WB Yeats and James Joyce. It is the first collection of essays to focus on Mangan, and features articles by leading scholars in the field, including David Lloyd, as well as contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. The collection expands existing fields of debate - translation, the supernatural, intertexuality, nationalism, romanticism - and introduces new ones: Mangan's afterlife in the English literary canon, cosmopolitanism and Weltliteratur, antiquity and futurity, nineteenth-century spiritualismand magical thinking. 'The Man in the Cloak', one of Mangan's favourite pseudonyms, is still a resonant soubriquet for a writer who has largely eluded critical attention, and this volume restores him to his proper place in European and British, as well as Irish literary history"--
List of contents
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations On the Tiles with J.C. Mangan; Paul Muldoon Introduction; Sinéad Sturgeon 1. Unauthorised Mangan; Sean Ryder 2. Mangan in England; Matthew Campbell 3. Crossing Over: On Mangan's 'Spirit's Everywhere'; David Lloyd 4. 'Fully Able /To Write in Any Language I'm a Babel': James Clarence Mangan and the Task of the Translator; David Wheatley 5. 'Antiquity and Futurity' in the Writings of James Clarence Mangan; Joseph Lennon 6. Cosmopolitan Form: Mangan's Anthologies and the Critique of Weltliteratur ; Cóilín Parsons 7. Night Singer: Mangan Among the Birds; Sinéad Sturgeon 8. 'The last of the bardic poets': Joyce's Multiple Mangans; John McCourt 9. '[M]y mind is destroying me': Consciousness, 'Psychological Narrative,' and Supernaturalist Modes in Mangan's Fiction; Richard Haslam 10. The Spiritual 'vastation' of James Clarence Mangan: Magic, Technology, and Identity; Anne Jamison 11. Shades of Mangan; Ciaran Carson Bibliography Index
About the author
Matthew Campbell, University of York, UK
Ciaran Carson, Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland
Richard Haslam, Saint Joseph's University, USA
Anne Jamison, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Joseph Lennon, Villanova University, USA
David Lloyd, University of California, USA
John McCourt, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Paul Muldoon, Princeton University, USA
Cóilín Parsons, Georgetown University, USA
Sean Ryder, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Sinéad Sturgeon, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland
David Wheatley, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
