Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-1780: Volume 1 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Haslett, Moyra

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines eighteenth-century Irish literature, highlighting the diversity of texts, authors and approaches that characterises contemporary studies of the period. Chapters consider the contexts of history, politics, language, philosophy, gender, sexuality, and the environment while situating Irish literature in relation to Ireland, Britain, Europe and beyond. Well-known authors (Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith) are read alongside less familiar writers (including Mary Barber, William Chaigneau, Frances Sheridan, and Samuel Whyte) and popular and ephemeral literatures take their place with formerly canonical texts. It demonstrates the exciting vitality and richness of eighteenth-century Irish literature - written and performed - as well as its complex intersections with different communities and traditions. This book will be a key resource to scholars and students of Irish eighteenth-century studies as well as readers generally interested in questions of Anglophone and Irish-language culture, representations of gender and sexuality, and national and trans-national identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108664813
• Artikelnr.: 62745535

Inhaltsangabe

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.