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Irish literature in transition, 1700-1780 /

Contributor(s): Haslett, Moyra [editor.].
Series: Irish literature in transition ; 1.Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: xv, 409 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781108427500; 9781108427500:; 1108427502.Subject(s): English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Irish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Literature and society -- Ireland -- HistoryDDC classification: 820.909415
Contents:
Introduction / Moira Haslett -- Starting points and moving targets : transition and the Early Modern / Maire-Louise Coolahan -- 'We Irish' : writing and national identity from Berkeley to Burke / Ian Campbell Ross -- Re-viewing Swift / Brean Hammond -- The prejudices of Enlightenment / David Dwan -- The Molyneux problem and Irish Enlightenment / Darrell Jones -- Samuel Whyte and the politics of Eighteenth-Century Irish private theatricals / Helen M. Burke -- Land and landscape in Irish poetry in English, 1700-1780 / Andrew Carpenter -- The idea of the Eighteenth-Century national theatre / Conrad Brunstöm -- Transnational influence and exchange : the intersections between Irish and French sentimental novels / Amy Prendergast -- 'An example to the whole world' : patriotism and imperialism in Early Irish fiction / Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- The province of poetry : women poets in Early Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Aileen DOuglas -- Queering Eighteenth-Century Irish writing : Yahoo, Fribble, Freke / Declan Kavanagh -- 'Brightest wits and bravest soldiers' : Ireland, masculinity, and the politics of paternity / Rebecca Anne Barr -- Fictions of sisterhood in Eighteenth-Century Irish writing / Moyra Haslett -- The popular criminal narrative and the development of the Irish novel / Joe Lines -- Gaelic influences and the echoes in the Irish novel, 1700-1780 : Anne Markey -- New beginning or bearer of tradition? Early Irish fiction and the construction of the child / Clíona Ó Gallchoir -- Re-imagining feminist protest in contemporary translation : Lament for Art O'Leary and The Midnight Court / Lesa Ní Mhungaile -- 'Our Darkest Century' : the Irish Eighteenth Century in memory and modernity / James Ward.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Moira Haslett -- Starting points and moving targets : transition and the Early Modern / Maire-Louise Coolahan -- 'We Irish' : writing and national identity from Berkeley to Burke / Ian Campbell Ross -- Re-viewing Swift / Brean Hammond -- The prejudices of Enlightenment / David Dwan -- The Molyneux problem and Irish Enlightenment / Darrell Jones -- Samuel Whyte and the politics of Eighteenth-Century Irish private theatricals / Helen M. Burke -- Land and landscape in Irish poetry in English, 1700-1780 / Andrew Carpenter -- The idea of the Eighteenth-Century national theatre / Conrad Brunstöm -- Transnational influence and exchange : the intersections between Irish and French sentimental novels / Amy Prendergast -- 'An example to the whole world' : patriotism and imperialism in Early Irish fiction / Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- The province of poetry : women poets in Early Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Aileen DOuglas -- Queering Eighteenth-Century Irish writing : Yahoo, Fribble, Freke / Declan Kavanagh -- 'Brightest wits and bravest soldiers' : Ireland, masculinity, and the politics of paternity / Rebecca Anne Barr -- Fictions of sisterhood in Eighteenth-Century Irish writing / Moyra Haslett -- The popular criminal narrative and the development of the Irish novel / Joe Lines -- Gaelic influences and the echoes in the Irish novel, 1700-1780 : Anne Markey -- New beginning or bearer of tradition? Early Irish fiction and the construction of the child / Clíona Ó Gallchoir -- Re-imagining feminist protest in contemporary translation : Lament for Art O'Leary and The Midnight Court / Lesa Ní Mhungaile -- 'Our Darkest Century' : the Irish Eighteenth Century in memory and modernity / James Ward.

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.

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