Forging in the Smithy

National Identity and Representation in Anglo-Irish Literary History
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-5183-759-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 98, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 16 mm x 23 mm

Reihe: Costerus New Series

The interest of Anglo-Irish literature is not only that its canon includes a high proportion of literary giants - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett - but also that it exemplifies the problematics of literature in a context of social and cultural tension. Irish literary history has often been studied under precisely that aspect: as the literature of a country in a marginal, colonial yet intra-European position; a country where a variety of cultural traditions (Gaelic, Anglo-Irish, Ulster Presbyterian) have coexisted in an uneasy relationship; a country with intense social and economic divisions. These infrastructural tensions are not mere "background" or part of the "context", but have been explicitly thematized in a substantial part of Ireland's literary output, so that an Irish author who does not address the "matter of Ireland" stands out as an anomaly, an exception to the general patterns. Therefore, the historical context of much Anglo-Irish scholarship is hardly surprising. Forging the Smithy: National Identity and Representation in Anglo-Irish Literary History addresses three interrelated areas of interest: language, territory and politics; the role of historical consciousness in Irish authors and in their dissemination; and the representation of Irish affairs asa it gives rise to specific literary strategies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Leerssen, Joep

Weel, Adriaan van der

Westerweel, Bart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Forging in the Smithy. Bart WESTERWEEL: Spenser's Ireland. Ciaran MURRAY: Anglo-Dutch and Anglo-Irish: The Politics of Romanticism. Susan FISHER MILLER: The Gentlemen at Large: Dublin Castle, Trinity College, and Jonathan Swift. Robert MAHONEY: Prince Posterity as an Irish Nationalist: The Posthumous Course of Swift's Patriotic Reputation. Wim TIGGGES: Public, Private and Poetic: Wolfe Tone's Autobiographical Writings. C.C. BARFOOT: Why Hang O'Quigley?: Treason and the Press in 1798. Peter DAVIDSON: A Note on the Music Manuscript of Anna Corri. Richard WALL: Politics and Language in Anglo-Irish Literature. Joep LEERSSEN: Language Revivalism before the Twilight. Arthur GREEN: Homage to Heslinga. Clare O'HALLORAN: An English Orientalist in Ireland: Charles Vallancey (1726-1812). Norman VANCE: Archaeology and the Ideology of Colony and Nation: The Case of New Grange. Martin J. BURKE: The Politics and Poetics of Nationalist Historiography: Mathew Carey and the Vindiciae Hibernicae. Jane STEVENSON: The Politics of Historiography: Or, Novels with Footnotes. Christopher MORASH: The Rhetoric of Right in Mitchel's Jail Journal. James H. MURPHY: Rosa Mulholland, W.P. Ryan and Irish Catholic Fiction at the Time of the Anglo-Irish Revival. Barbara FREITAG: Literature Rewrites History: James Connolly and James Larkin Larger than Life. Notes on Contributors.