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Showcases the diversity and rich complexity of literature in Ireland in the eighteenth century.
List of contents
Part I. Starting Points: 1. Starting-points and moving targets: transition and the early modern Marie-Louise Coolahan; 2. 'We Irish': writing and national identity from Berkeley to Burke Ian Campbell Ross; 3. Re-viewing Swift Brean Hammond; Part II. Philosophical and Political Frameworks: 4. The prejudices of Enlightenment David Dwan; 5. The Molyneux problem and Irish Enlightenment Darrell Jones; 6. Samuel Whyte and the politics of eighteenth-century Irish private theatricals Helen M. Burke; Part III. Local, National and Transnational Contexts: 7. Land and landscape in Irish poetry in English, 1700-1780 Andrew Carpenter; 8. The idea of an eighteenth-century national theatre Conrad Brunström; 9. Transnational influence and exchange: the intersections between Irish and French sentimental novels Amy Prendergast; 10. 'An example to the whole world': patriotism and imperialism in early Irish fiction Daniel Sanjiv Roberts; Part IV. Gender and Sexuality: 11. The province of poetry: women poets in early eighteenth-century Ireland Aileen Douglas; 12. Queering eighteenth-century Irish writing: Yahoo, Fribble, Freke Declan Kavanagh; 13. 'Brightest wits and bravest soldiers': Ireland, masculinity, and the politics of paternity Rebecca Anne Barr; 14. Fictions of sisterhood in eighteenth-century Irish literature Moyra Haslett; Part V. Transcultural Contexts: 15. The popular criminal narrative and the development of the Irish novel Joe Lines; 16. Gaelic influences and echoes in the Irish novel, 1700-1780 Anne Markey; 17. New beginning or bearer of tradition? Early Irish fiction and the construction of the child Clíona Ó Gallchoir; Part VI. Retrospective Readings: 18. Re-imagining feminist protest in contemporary translation: The Lament for art O'Leary and The Midnight Court Lesa Ní Mhunghaile; 19. 'Our darkest century': the Irish eighteenth century in memory and modernity James Ward.
About the author
Moyra Haslett is Professor of English at Queen's University Belfast. Her first monograph - Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend (1997) - won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize awarded by the British Academy. She is also the author of a popular general book on eighteenth-century literature: From Pope to Burney, Scriblerians to Bluestockings (2003). She is one of the general editors of the Early Irish Fiction, c.1680–1820 series, and has co-edited a special issue of the Irish University Review on the same topic (2011). She is also the Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Irish Song Project (see www.irishsongproject.qub.ac.uk).
Summary
An innovative exploration of eighteenth-century Irish literature, this volume showcases the diversity of texts, authors, and approaches characterizing contemporary studies. It will appeal to scholars and students of the period as well as to readers interested in questions of gender, sexuality, national identity, and trans-national identity.
