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Informationen zum Autor Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her publications in Irish literature include Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Literature (2007) and an edition of Lady Morgan's The Missionary (2002). Klappentext Over the past twenty years, interest in Irish literature has risen dramatically across the globe. Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology presents in one volume the rich body of Irish writing between the Enlightenment and Modernism. This expansive anthology offers full texts of short plays, fiction, and poetry by a wide selection of prominent writers, including Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Maria Edgeworth, Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, Samuel Ferguson, Lady Jane Wilde, and Oscar Wilde. It features a selection of collaboratively authored works by the Edgeworths, the Banims, and the Kavanaghs, as well as excerpts from collaborative publications such as Paddy's Resource and The Nation . Special attention is paid to the work of Ireland's women writers, as well as a number of Ulster poets and writers who emigrated to North America during this period. Designed specifically for classroom use, this essential resource offers a variety of helpful features for students, including a chronology of historical events and major literary works of the era. Zusammenfassung Over the past twenty years! interest in Irish literature has risen dramatically across the globe. Irish Literature! 1750-1900: An Anthology presents in one volume the rich body of Irish writing between the Enlightenment and Modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Selected Contents by Theme and Genre. Introduction. Editorial Note. Acknowledgments. Chronology of Selected Historical Events and Irish Novels. Map of Ireland. THOMAS SHERIDAN (1719-1788). from An Humble Appeal to the Publick (1758). A Proposal. The Brave Irishman: Or, Captain O'Blunder. A Farce (1759). FRANCES SHERIDAN (1724-1766). from The Discovery (1763). Prologue. Ode to Patience (wr. 1764). OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774). from The Citizen of the World (1762). Letter XVII. from Letter XXXII. The Deserted Village (1770). from Poems (1775). Retaliation. EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797). from A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). from Part I. XI. SOCIETY and SOLITUDE. XIII. SYMPATHY. XIV. The effects of SYMPATHY in the distresses of others. XV. Of the effects of TRAGEDY. from Part II. I. Of the passion caused by the SUBLIME. II. TERROR. III. OBSCURITY. from Part III. I. Of BEAUTY. XXVIII. The Sublime and Beautiful compared. from Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770). ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE (1733-c.1812). The Captive: A Comic Opera (1769). JOHN LESLIE (fl. 1772). Killarney: A Poem (1772). JOSEPH COOPER WALKER (1761-1810) and TURLOUGH O'CAROLAN (1670-1738). from Walker's Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards (1786). Bumpers, 'Squire Jones (imitated from Carolan). Carolan's Monody on the Death of Mary Mac Guire. CHARLOTTE BROOKE (c.1740-1793). from Reliques of Irish Poetry (1789). from Preface. Elegy (by Edmond Ryan, or Edmond of the Hill). Song (by Patrick Linden). ELIZABETH RYVES (1750-1797). from Poems on Several Occasions (1777). Ode to Sensibility. A Ballad, Written in June, 1775. Song. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816). St. Patrick's Day; Or, the Scheming Lieutenant. A Comic Opera (1788). from Union of Ireland with Great Britain (parliamentary speech, January ...
