Fictions of the Irish Land War
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Fictions of the Irish Land War

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  1. 229 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Fictions of the Irish Land War

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About this book

The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish Land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate both the historical events themselves and the material conditions of reading and writing in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Divisions into 'us' and 'them' were convenient for political reasons, but the fiction of the period frequently modifies this alignment and draws attention to the complexity of the land problem.
This collection includes studies of canonical land war novels, publication channels, collaborations between artists and authors, literary conventions and the interplay between personal experience and literary output. It also includes unique resources such as a reprinted letter by the author Mary Anne Sadlier and a reproduction of Rosa Mulholland's little-known play Our Boycotting. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography of land war fiction between 1879 and 1916, which should inspire further reading and research into the genre.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. James H. Murphy and Heidi Hansson The Irish Land War and its Fictions
  5. Whitney Standlee The ‘Personal Element’ and Emily Lawless’s Hurrish (1886)
  6. Derek Hand George Moore’s A Drama in Muslin: Art and the Middle-Classes
  7. Faith Binckes and Kathryn Laing ‘Rival Attractions of the Season’: Land-War Fiction, Christmas Annuals, and the Early Writing of Hannah Lynch
  8. Julie Anne Stevens The Irish Land War and Children’s Literature: Padraic Colum’s A Boy in Eirinn (1913) illustrated by Jack B. Yeats
  9. Heidi Hansson More than an Irish Problem: Authority and Universality in Land-War Writing
  10. Anna Pilz ‘All Possessors of Property Tremble’: Constructions of Landlord-Tenant Relations in Lady Gregory’s Writings
  11. Carla King The Making of a Thoughtful Agitator: A Glimpse at Michael Davitt’s Books
  12. James H. Murphy Mary Anne Sadlier on the Land War
  13. Heidi Hansson and James H. Murphy Introduction to Rosa Mulholland, Our Boycotting: A Miniature Comedy
  14. Rosa Mulholland Our Boycotting: A Miniature Comedy
  15. Bibliography of Land-War Fiction 1879–1916
  16. Notes on Contributors
  17. Index