Irish Literature in Transition, 1830–1880: Volume 3

Matthew Campbell

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781108480482
• eBook ISBN: 9781108575256
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Ireland's experience in the nineteenth century was quite different from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in differing forms – like the gothic or historical novel – and its poetry and drama were populated with ballad and song. Its writers were by turns nationalist or unionist, anglophile or de-anglicising. If the effects of famine and emigration were catastrophic for mid-nineteenth-century Irish culture, they initiated a literary story that spread across the diaspora. Despite the decline of spoken Irish, literature continued to be published, while scholarly endeavours such as translation or the Ordnance Survey preserved much from the Gaelic past. This rich volume examines the many forms of new writing that thrived throughout this period. Utilizing a thematic and historical approach, it addresses a broad anglophone readership in Victorian literature. Essays consider the Irish authors in America and India, women's writing, and the resilience of Irish literature before the revival.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Series Preface
• General Acknowledgements
• Acknowledgements
• Part I Contexts and Contents: Politics and Periodicals
• Part II Ireland and the Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Part III From the Four Nations to the Globalising Irish
• Part IV The Languages of Literature
• Index