Irish Literature in Transition, 1830–1880: Volume 3

This volume is a rich, innovative volume on emergent Irish literary forms in the Victorian age.

Matthew Campbell (Edited by)

9781108480482, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 March 2020

340 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

'… show[s] how an attention to Irish writing can transform how we understand key concepts like romanticism; literary genres like realism, the gothic, ballads; political formations like empire and the transatlantic slave trade; and periodical culture. I highly recommend these books to scholars interested in learning more about Ireland as well as to established scholars of Irish literature.' Mary L. Mullen, Nineteenth-Century Contexts

Ireland's experience in the nineteenth century was quite different from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in differing forms – like the gothic or historical novel – and its poetry and drama were populated with ballad and song. Its writers were by turns nationalist or unionist, anglophile or de-anglicising. If the effects of famine and emigration were catastrophic for mid-nineteenth-century Irish culture, they initiated a literary story that spread across the diaspora. Despite the decline of spoken Irish, literature continued to be published, while scholarly endeavours such as translation or the Ordnance Survey preserved much from the Gaelic past. This rich volume examines the many forms of new writing that thrived throughout this period. Utilizing a thematic and historical approach, it addresses a broad anglophone readership in Victorian literature. Essays consider the Irish authors in America and India, women's writing, and the resilience of Irish literature before the revival.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literary theory [DSA], Literature: history & criticism [DS]