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Author:   Moyra Haslett (Queen's University Belfast)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781108427500

ISBN 10:   1108427502
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   12 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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'This set will be valuable for those interested in the rich Irish literary tradition, including those desiring to reach beyond accepted historical narratives ... Highly recommended.' M. Knight, Choice '... a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times 'This edited collection of nineteen articles by an impressive range of contributors highlights the current trends and values in Irish eighteenth-century scholarship ... One of the strengths of this particular volume is that it is aimed at not only those with an interest in Irish literature, but also those interested in eighteenth-century writing generally ... the variety of material, writers, and approaches means that even readers familiar with many of these writers will find much that is new and striking. These essays bring neglected writing and writers to the fore and shed new light on others. Most significantly, these essays help to reveal the richness, complexity, and sophistication of this period in Irish letters. The real strength of these essays might be in the way they allow this writing and the issues raised to have new life and significance today.' Jim Shanahan, Eighteenth-Century Fiction

'This set will be valuable for those interested in the rich Irish literary tradition, including those desiring to reach beyond accepted historical narratives … Highly recommended.' M. Knight, Choice '… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times 'This edited collection of nineteen articles by an impressive range of contributors highlights the current trends and values in Irish eighteenth-century scholarship … One of the strengths of this particular volume is that it is aimed at not only those with an interest in Irish literature, but also those interested in eighteenth-century writing generally … the variety of material, writers, and approaches means that even readers familiar with many of these writers will find much that is new and striking. These essays bring neglected writing and writers to the fore and shed new light on others. Most significantly, these essays help to reveal the richness, complexity, and sophistication of this period in Irish letters. The real strength of these essays might be in the way they allow this writing and the issues raised to have new life and significance today.' Jim Shanahan, Eighteenth-Century Fiction

'This set will be valuable for those interested in the rich Irish literary tradition, including those desiring to reach beyond accepted historical narratives ... Highly recommended.' M. Knight, Choice

Author Information

Moyra Haslett is Professor of English at Queen's University Belfast. Her first monograph - Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend (1997) - won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize awarded by the British Academy. She is also the author of a popular general book on eighteenth-century literature: From Pope to Burney, Scriblerians to Bluestockings (2003). She is one of the general editors of the Early Irish Fiction, c.1680–1820 series, and has co-edited a special issue of the Irish University Review on the same topic (2011). She is also the Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Irish Song Project (see www.irishsongproject.qub.ac.uk).

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