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This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present. The essays explore the recurrent motif of exile and the subversive potential of Irish writing in political, cultural and literary terms. Case-studies of major writers such as Swift, Joyce, and Heaney are set alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution and the contribution of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.
List of contents
Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; N.Sammells - The Subversive Philosophy of John Toland; S.H.Daniel - Naming Names : Steele and Swift; P.Hyland - The English Swift/The Irish Swift; R.Phiddian - 'They Sate in Counterview': Anglo-Irish Verse in the Eighteenth Century; B.Coleborne - Irish Exiles, Revolution and Writing in the 1790s; A.Booth - William Carleton: The Lough Derg Exile; M.O'Brien - Making History: John Mitchel and the Great famine; G.Davis - Oscar Wilde: Quite Another Thing; N.Sammells - Yeats, Exile and Childhood; D.Kiberd - 'A Voice in the Affairs of Ireland': 'L'Irlande Libre', 'The Shan Van Vocht' and 'Bean Na H-Eireann'; C.L.Innes - James Joyce: A Subversive Geography of Gender; B.K.Scott - Joyce's 'Chinese Alphabet': 'Ulysses' and the Proletarians; K.Williams - 'Fin de Partie'/'Endgame' as Political Drama; C.R.Lyons - Parables of Estrangement: the Fiction of J.P.Donleavy; D.Seed - Friel and Shaw: Dreams and Responsibilities; R.K.R.Thornton - Strange Letters: Reading and Writing in Recent Irish Poetry; N.Corcoran - Index
Summary
Case-studies of major writers such as Swift, Joyce, and Heaney are set alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution and the contribution of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.
