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Author:   Matthew Campbell (University of York)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781108480482

ISBN 10:   1108480489
Pages:   340
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. 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.

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'... a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times

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Matthew Campbell is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York. He is the author of Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry (1999) and Irish Poetry Under the Union (2013). He is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge, 2003) and The Voice of the People; the European Folk Revival (2012).

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