A Companion to Irish Literature, Volume One & Two

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A Companion to Irish Literature, Volume One & Two

Editor(s): Julia M. Wright

Published Online: 22 MAR 2012 02:11AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405188098

Online ISBN: 9781444328066

DOI: 10.1002/9781444328066

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Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day.

  •  Covers an unprecedented historical range of Irish literature
  • Arranged in two volumes covering Irish literature from the medieval period to 1900, and its development through the twentieth century to the present day
  • Presents a re-visioning of twentieth-century Irish literature and a collection of the most up-to-date scholarship in the field as a whole
  • Includes a substantial number of women writers from the eighteenth century to the present day
  • Includes essays on leading contemporary authors, including Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Roddy Doyle, and Emma Donoghue
  • Introduces readers to the wide range of current approaches to studying Irish literature

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xix)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–14)

      Julia M. Wright

  3. Part One: The Middle Ages

    1. Chapter 1

      Táin Bó Cúailnge (pages 15–26)

      Ann Dooley

    2. Chapter 2

      Finn and the Fenian Tradition (pages 27–38)

      Joseph Falaky Nagy

    3. Chapter 3

      The Reception and Assimilation of Continental Literature (pages 39–56)

      Barbara Lisa Hillers

  4. Part Two: The Early Modern Era

    1. Chapter 4

      Bardic Poetry, Masculinity, and the Politics of Male Homosociality (pages 57–75)

      Sarah E. McKibben

    2. Chapter 5

      Annalists and Historians in Early Modern Ireland, 1450–1700 (pages 76–91)

      Bernadette Cunningham

    3. Chapter 6

      “Hungry Eyes” and the Rhetoric of Dispossession: English Writing from Early Modern Ireland (pages 92–107)

      Patricia Palmer

    4. Chapter 7

      Kinds of Irishness: Henry Burnell and Richard Head (pages 108–124)

      Deana Rankin

  5. Part Three: The Eighteenth Century

    1. Chapter 8

      Crossing Acts: Irish Drama from George Farquhar to Thomas Sheridan (pages 125–141)

      Helen M. Burke

    2. Chapter 9

      Parnell and Early Eighteenth-Century Irish Poetry (pages 142–160)

      Andrew Carpenter

    3. Chapter 10

      Jonathan Swift and Eighteenth-Century Ireland (pages 161–177)

      Clement Hawes

    4. Chapter 11

      Merriman's Cúirt An Mheonoíche and Eighteenth-Century Irish Verse (pages 178–192)

      Liam P. Ó Murchú

    5. Chapter 12

      Frances Sheridan and Ireland (pages 193–209)

      Kathleen M. Oliver

    6. Chapter 13

      “The Indigent Philosopher”: Oliver Goldsmith (pages 210–225)

      James Watt

    7. Chapter 14

      Edmund Burke (pages 226–242)

      Luke Gibbons

    8. Chapter 15

      The Drama of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (pages 243–258)

      Robert W. Jones

  6. Part Four: The Romantic Period

    1. Chapter 16

      United Irish Poetry and Songs (pages 259–275)

      Mary Helen Thuente

    2. Chapter 17

      Maria Edgeworth and (Inter)national Intelligence (pages 276–291)

      Susan Manly

    3. Chapter 18

      Mary Tighe: A Portrait of the Artist for the Twenty-First Century (pages 292–309)

      Harriet Kramer Linkin

    4. Chapter 19

      Thomas Moore: After the Battle (pages 310–325)

      Jeffery Vail

    5. Chapter 20

      The Role of the Political Woman in the Writings of Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) (pages 326–341)

      Susan B. Egenolf

  7. Part Five: The Rise of Gothic

    1. Chapter 21

      Charles Robert Maturin: Ireland's Eccentric Genius (pages 343–361)

      Robert Miles

    2. Chapter 22

      Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Gothic Grotesque and the Huguenot Inheritance (pages 362–376)

      Alison Milbank

    3. Chapter 23

      A Philosophical Home Ruler: The Imaginary Geographies of Bram Stoker (pages 377–391)

      Lisa Hopkins

  8. Part Six: The Victorian Era

    1. Chapter 24

      Scribes and Storytellers: The Ethnographic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (pages 393–410)

      Stiofán Ó Cadhla

    2. Chapter 25

      Reconciliation and Emancipation: The Banims and Carleton (pages 411–426)

      Helen O'Connell

    3. Chapter 26

      Davis, Mangan, Ferguson: Irish Poetry, 1831–1849 (pages 427–443)

      Matthew Campbell

    4. Chapter 27

      The Great Famine in Literature, 1846–1896 (pages 444–459)

      Melissa Fegan

    5. Chapter 28

      Dion Boucicault: From Stage Irishman to Staging Nationalism (pages 460–475)

      Scott Boltwood

    6. Chapter 29

      Oscar Wilde's Convictions, Speciesism, and the Pain of Individualism (pages 476–490)

      Dennis Denisoff

    1. Introduction (pages 1–16)

      Julia M. Wright

  10. Part Seven: Transitions: Victorian, Revival, Modern

    1. Chapter 30

      Cultural Nationalism and Irish Modernism (pages 17–34)

      Michael Mays

    2. Chapter 31

      Defining Irishness: Bernard Shaw and the Irish Connection on the English Stage (pages 35–49)

      Christopher Innes

    3. Chapter 32

      The Novels of Somerville and Ross (pages 50–65)

      Vera Kreilkamp

    4. Chapter 33

      W.B. Yeats and the Dialectics of Misrecognition (pages 66–82)

      Gregory Castle

    5. Chapter 34

      John Millington Synge – Playwright and Poet (pages 83–97)

      Ann Saddlemyer

    6. Chapter 35

      James Joyce and the Creation of Modern Irish Literature (pages 98–111)

      Michael Patrick Gillespie

  11. Part Eight: Developments in Genre and Representation after 1930

    1. Chapter 36

      The Word of Politics/Politics of the Word: Immanence and Transdescendence in Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett (pages 113–128)

      Sandra Wynands

    2. Chapter 37

      Elizabeth Bowen: A Home in Writing (pages 129–143)

      Eluned Summers-Bremner

    3. Chapter 38

      Changing Times: Frank O'Connor and Seán O'Faoláin (pages 144–158)

      Paul Delaney

    4. Chapter 39

      “Ireland is Small Enough”: Louis MacNeice and Patrick Kavanagh (pages 159–175)

      Alan Gillis

    5. Chapter 40

      Irish Mimes: Flann O'Brien (pages 176–191)

      Joseph Brooker

  12. Part Nine: Debating Social Change after 1960

    1. Chapter 41

      Reading William Trevor and Finding Protestant Ireland (pages 193–208)

      Gregory A. Schirmer

    2. Chapter 42

      The Mythopoeic Ireland of Edna O'Brien's Fiction (pages 209–223)

      Maureen O'Connor

    3. Chapter 43

      Anglo-Irish Conflict in Jennifer Johnston's Fiction (pages 224–233)

      Silvia Diez Fabre

    4. Chapter 44

      Living History: The Importance of Julia O'Faolain's Fiction (pages 234–247)

      Christine St Peter

    5. Chapter 45

      Holding a Mirror up to a Society in Evolution: John McGahern (pages 248–262)

      Eamon Maher

  13. Part Ten: Contemporary Literature: Print, Stage, and Screen

    1. Chapter 46

      Brian Friel: From Nationalism to Post-Nationalism (pages 263–280)

      F. C. McGrath

    2. Chapter 47

      Telling the Truth Slant: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (pages 281–295)

      Eugene O'Brien

    3. Chapter 48

      Belfast Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Medbh McGuckian (pages 296–311)

      Richard Rankin Russell

    4. Chapter 49

      Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Work of Witness (pages 312–327)

      Guinn Batten

    5. Chapter 50

      Eavan Boland's Muse Mothers (pages 328–344)

      Heather Clark

    6. Chapter 51

      John Banville's Dualistic Universe (pages 345–359)

      Elke D'Hoker

    7. Chapter 52

      Between History and Fantasy: The Irish Films of Neil Jordan (pages 360–373)

      Brian McIlroy

    8. Chapter 53

      “Keeping That Wound Green”: The Poetry of Paul Muldoon (pages 374–389)

      David Wheatley

    9. Chapter 54

      Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and the “Continuously Contemporary” (pages 390–409)

      Frank Sewell

    10. Chapter 55

      The Anxiety of Influence and the Fiction of Roddy Doyle (pages 410–424)

      Danine Farquharson

    11. Chapter 56

      The Reclamation of “Injurious Terms” in Emma Donoghue's Fiction (pages 425–435)

      Jennifer M. Jeffers

    12. Chapter 57

      Martin McDonagh and the Ethics of Irish Storytelling (pages 436–450)

      Patrick Lonergan

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      Index (pages 451–473)

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