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An innovative volume offering a remapping of a crucial period in Irish literary history based on contemporary developments in scholarship.
List of contents
1. Introduction Marjorie Howes; Part I. Revisionary Foundations: 2. The apotheosis of the vernacular: dialects and the Irish revival Brian Ó'Conchubhair; 3. Origins of modern Irish poetry, 1880-1922 Alex Davis; 4. Theatrical Ireland: new routes from the Abbey Theatre to the Gate Theatre Paige Reynolds; 5. Recovery and the ascendancy novel 1880-1932 Vera Kreilkamp; Part II. Revoutionary Forms: 6. Print culture landscapes 1880-1922 Niall Carson; 7. Revolutionary lives in the rearview mirror: memoir and autobiography Karen Steele; 8. The Hugh Lane controversy and the Irish revival Lucy McDiarmid; 9. New Irish women and new women's writing Tina O'Toole; Part III. Major Figures in Transition: 10. Aging Yeats: from fascism to disability Joseph Valente; 11. 'I myself delight in Miss Edgeworth's novels': gender, power, and the domestic in Lady Gregory's work Lauren Arrington; 12. Synge and disappearing Ireland Gregory Castle; 13. Drumcondra modernism: Joyce's suburban aesthetic Enda Duffy; 14. London Irish: Wilde, Shaw and Yeats Nicholas Grene; Part IV. Aftermaths and Outcomes: 15. Reimagining realism in post-independence Irish writing Mark Quigley; 16. The free state of poetry Lucy Collins; 17. Live wires and dead noise: revolutionary communications Emily C. Bloom; 18. The dead, the undead, and the half-alive: the transition from narrative plot to formal trope in late modern Irish writing Clair Wills; Part V. Frameworks in Transition: 19. Irish literary criticism during the revival Gerry Smyth; 20. Retrospective readings: the rise of global Irish studies Peter Kuch.
About the author
Marjorie Elizabeth Howes is an Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies at Boston College, Massachusetts. She is the author of Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness (Cambridge, 1996), and winner of the Michael J. Durkan Prize for the year's best book in literary as well as cultural studies awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Howes also authored Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History (2006) and was a co-editor for three other books, including The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (Cambridge, 2006). From 2003–10, she was also the co-director of the Irish Studies Program at Boston College.
Summary
Capturing the emerging trends and current debates in contemporary scholarship, this volume will interest scholars and students of Irish literature and culture. Its diverse chapters will help readers understand Irish writing through innovative contexts ranging from political and social history to the recovery of previously neglected authors.
