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This volume is a rich, innovative volume on emergent Irish literary forms in the Victorian age.
List of contents
Part I. Contexts and Contents: Politics and Periodicals: 1. Victorian Ireland, 1830-1880: a transition state Matthew Campbell; 2. Satire, fiction and innovation between Dublin, Edinburgh and London Jim Kelly; 3. Young Irelanders, Fenians, Land Leaguers: Young Ireland and beyond Melissa Fegan; Part II. Ireland and the Liberal Arts and Sciences: 4. Naming the place: the Ordnance Survey and its afterlives Cóilín Parsons; 5. Political economy? The economics and sociology of famine Marguerite Corporaal; 6. Newman's Irish University Colin Barr; 7. The charms of Ireland: travel writing and tourism Glenn Hooper; Part III. From the Four Nations to the Globalising Irish: 8. England and Ireland, Tory and Whig: Thackeray, Trollope, Arnold John McCourt; 9. The Irish in the Empire: Moore, Lever, Duffy Jim Shanahan; 10. An exiled history: Mitchel to O'Leary James Quinn; 11. The writing of Irish-America Peter D. O'Neill; Part IV. The Languages of Literature: 12. Antiquarians and authentics: survival and revival in Gaelic writing Nicholas Wolf; 13. Poetry and its audiences: club, street, ballad Norman Vance; 14. Gothic, allegory, realism: the Irish 'Victorian' novel Raphael Ingelbien; 15. The rise of the woman writer Anna Pilz; 16. Dion Boucicault and the globalized Irish stage Shaun Richards; 17. The popular prints Stephanie Rains.
About the author
Matthew Campbell is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York. He is the author of Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry (1999) and Irish Poetry Under the Union (2013). He is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge, 2003) and The Voice of the People; the European Folk Revival (2012).
Summary
Exploring Irish fiction, poetry, and drama through the lens of nationalism, diaspora, and the catastrophes of famine and emigration, this volume offers a new perspective of emergent literature in the Victorian age. This book is a key resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century studies and English literature.
