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Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement

Author : Helen O'Connell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191515973
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement written by Helen O'Connell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of Irish improvement fiction, a neglected genre of nineteenth-century literary, social, and political history.Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement shows how the fiction of Mary Leadbeater, Charles Bardin, Martin Doyle, and William Carleton attempted to lure Irish peasants and landowners away from popular genres such as fantasy, romance, and 'radical' political tracts as well as 'high' literary and philosophical forms of enquiry. These writers attempted to cultivate a taste for the didactic tract, an assertively realist mode of representation. Accordingly, improvement fiction laboured to demonstrate the value of hard work, frugality, and sobriety in a rigorously realistic idiom, representing the contentment that inheres in a plain social order free of excess and embellishment. Improvement discourse defined itself in opposition to the perceived extremism of revolutionary politics and literary writing, seeking (but failing) to exemplify how both political discontent and unhappiness could be offset by a strict practicality and prosaic realism. This book demonstrates how improvement reveals itself to be a literary discourse, enmeshed in the very rhetorical abyss it sought to escape. In addition, the proudly liberal rhetoric of improvement is shown to be at one with the imperial discourse it worked to displace. Helen O'Connell argues that improvement discourse is embedded in the literary and cultural mainstream of modern Ireland and has hindered the development of intellectual and political debate throughout this period. These issues are examined in chapters exploring the career of William Carleton; peasant 'orality'; educational provision in the post-Union period; the Irish language; secret society violence; Young Ireland nationalism; and the Irish Revival.

Irish Novels 1890-1940

Author : John Wilson Foster
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191528390
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Irish Novels 1890-1940 written by John Wilson Foster and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Irish fiction are still scanty in contrast to studies of Irish poetry and drama. Attempting to fill a large critical vacancy, Irish Novels 1890-1940 is a comprehensive survey of popular and minor fiction (mainly novels) published between 1890 and 1922, a crucial period in Irish cultural and political history. Since the bulk of these sixty-odd writers have never been written about, certainly beyond brief mentions, the book opens up for further exploration a literary landscape, hitherto neglected, perhaps even unsuspected. This new landscape should alter the familiar perspectives on Irish literature of the period, first of all by adding genre fiction (science fiction, detective novels, ghost stories, New Woman fiction, and Great War novels) to the Irish syllabus, secondly by demonstrating the immense contribution of women writers to popular and mainstream Irish fiction. Among the popular and prolific female writers discussed are Mrs J.H. Riddell, B.M. Croker, M.E. Francis, Sarah Grand, Katharine Tynan, Ella MacMahon, Katherine Cecil Thurston, W.M. Letts, and Hannah Lynch. Indeed, a critical inference of the survey is that if there is a discernible tradition of the Irish novel, it is largely a female tradition. A substantial postscript surveys novels by Irish women between 1922 and1940 and relates them to the work of their female antecedents. This ground-breaking survey should also alter the familiar perspectives on the Ireland of 1890-1922. Many of the popular works were problem-novels and hence throw light on contemporary thinking and debate on the 'Irish Question'. After the Irish Literary Revival and creation of the Free State, much popular and mainstream fiction became a lost archive, neglected evidence, indeed, of a lost Ireland.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction

Author : Liam Harte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191071056
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction written by Liam Harte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland's small size. The volume brings a variety of critical perspectives to bear on the development of modern Irish fiction, situating authors, texts, and genres in their social, intellectual, and literary historical contexts. The Handbook's coverage encompasses an expansive range of topics, including the recalcitrant atavisms of Irish Gothic fiction; nineteenth-century Irish women's fiction and its influence on emergent modernism and cultural nationalism; the diverse modes of irony, fabulism, and social realism that characterize the fiction of the Irish Literary Revival; the fearless aesthetic radicalism of James Joyce; the jolting narratological experiments of Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain; the fate of the realist and modernist traditions in the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O'Connor, Seán O'Faoláin, and Mary Lavin, and in that of their ambivalent heirs, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, and John Banville; the subversive treatment of sexuality and gender in Northern Irish women's fiction written during and after the Troubles; the often neglected genres of Irish crime fiction, science fiction, and fiction for children; the many-hued novelistic responses to the experiences of famine, revolution, and emigration; and the variety and vibrancy of post-millennial fiction from both parts of Ireland. Readably written and employing a wealth of original research, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction illuminates a distinguished literary tradition that has altered the shape of world literature.

Irish Materialisms

Author : Colleen Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019889483X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Irish Materialisms written by Colleen Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the Irish peasantry's subversive entanglement with nonhuman materiality. Each of the chapters engages a focused case study of an everyday object in colonial Ireland (coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, and pigs) to examine how each object's unique materiality contributed to the colonial ideology of British paternalism and afforded creative Irish expression. The main argument of Irish Materialisms is its methodology: of reading literature through the agency of materiality and nonhuman narrative in order to gain a more egalitarian and varied understanding of colonial experience. Irish Materialisms proves that new materialism holds powerful postcolonial potential. Through an intimate understanding of the materiality Irish peasants handled on a daily basis, this book presents a new portrait of Irish character that reflects greater empowerment, resistance, and expression in the oppressed Irish than has been previously recognized.

Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850

Author : Niall Ó Ciosáin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019967938X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850 written by Niall Ó Ciosáin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the construction and dissemination of the image conveyed of Irish society in the early nineteenth century

Improvement of Ireland. Second letter to the King on the practical improvement of Ireland

Author : John BEARE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Improvement of Ireland. Second letter to the King on the practical improvement of Ireland written by John BEARE and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blame Game

Author : Brendan Flynn
Publisher : Justice in Controversy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blame Game written by Brendan Flynn and published by Justice in Controversy. This book was released on 2007 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Flynn covers all of the above questions and more in his new book The Blame Game. A must-read for anyone interested in environmental issues in Ireland. Ireland's record in the field of environmental protection is one of the worst in Europe, and this book explores the reasons why. It examines the evolution of Irish environmental policy over the so-called 'Celtic Tiger' years of Ireland's economic boom while looking to the future as well. It considers why Ireland's environmental performance has been so lacklustre during this period, and what scope exists for improvement. The emphasis is placed primarily on institutional aspects of Irish environmental policy. In particular, this book offers a strong critique of the current Irish style of reaching environmental decisions, an excessive dependence on legal instruments, and a weak Irish local government system. The author further argues that Ireland has developed an institutional style of policy-making that urgently needs reform. He suggest a number of discreet but related problems that need to be understood and addressed. These include an excessive adversarial style of interaction between environmentalists, the Irish state, and business - the 'blame game' described in the title. Also fatal, is a complacency among the Irish policy elite, who have chosen to downplay environmental problems and continue to think of environmental policy as merely about corrective regulation, rather than adopting the wider and more ambitious vision of sustainable development. Individual chapters cover a range of topics, and the book will appeal to readers interested in comparative environmental policy and politics, the role of institutions in environmental policy-making, or indeed anyone keen to understand the post 'Celtic Tiger' politics and society of an Ireland in transition.Ã?Â?Ã?Â?

An Essay on the Trade and Improvement of Ireland. By Arthur Dobbs, Esq

Author : Arthur Dobbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Essay on the Trade and Improvement of Ireland. By Arthur Dobbs, Esq written by Arthur Dobbs and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Woman of the Future

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Woman of the Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Essay on the Trade and Improvement of Ireland. By Arthur Dobbs, Esq

Author : Arthur Dobbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book An Essay on the Trade and Improvement of Ireland. By Arthur Dobbs, Esq written by Arthur Dobbs and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction, 1660-1790

Author : Joe Lines
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655193
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction, 1660-1790 written by Joe Lines and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With characteristic lawlessness and connection to the common man, the figure of the rogue commanded the world of Irish fiction from 1660 to 1790. During this period of development for the Irish novel, this archetypal figure appears over and over again. Early Irish fiction combined the picaresque genre, focusing on a cunning, witty trickster or pícaro, with the escapades of real and notorious criminals. On the one hand, such rogue tales exemplified the English stereotypes of an unruly Ireland, but on the other, they also personified Irish patriotism. Existing between the dual publishing spheres of London and Dublin, the rogue narrative explored the complexities of Anglo-Irish relations. In this volume, Lines investigates why writers during the long eighteenth-century so often turned to the rogue narrative to discuss Ireland. Alongside recognized works of Irish fiction, such as those by William Chaigneau, Richard Head, and Charles Johnston, Lines presents lesser-known and even anonymous popular texts. With consideration for themes of conflict, migration, religion, and gender, Lines offers up a compelling connection between the rogues themselves, marked by persistence and adaptability, and the ever-popular rogue narrative in this early period of Irish writing.

The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume IV

Author : James H. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198187319
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume IV written by James H. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV: The Irish Book in English 1800-1891 details the story of the book in Ireland during the nineteenth century, when Ireland was integrated into the United Kingdom. The chapters in this volume explore book production and distribution and the differing of ways in which publishing existed in Dublin, Belfast, and the provinces.

Ireland in Fiction

Author : Stephen J. M. Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330301159
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Ireland in Fiction written by Stephen J. M. Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-Lore The first edition of Ireland in Fiction was destroyed by fire in the course of the Rising in Dublin at Easter, 1916. A few copies survived but the book has now been for some time quite out of print. I have taken advantage of the opportunity thus afforded for a new edition by endeavouring not only to bring the work up to date but to improve it in various ways. The improvements may be summarised as follows: - (1) Information has been obtained about nearly all the books left without notes in the previous edition. (2) Notes on many books overlooked in the first edition have been added, the total number of books annotated being now over 1,700. (3) A large number of new biographical notes on the authors have been inserted. This edition contains, in fact, nearly five hundred and fifty entirely new notes on books and authors. (4) A great many minor additions and corrections have been made. (5) The Appendices have been revised, that dealing with Irish fiction in periodicals being much enlarged. (6) The titles of the books have been continuously numbered throughout, a more precise mode of reference being thus provided. The aim and scope of the book have, I hope, been sufficiently dwelt upon in the preface to the former edition. It remains for me to express my gratitude to the many who have helped me in various ways in the preparation of this new edition. To the following in particular I wish to express my special indebtedness. For work in the British Museum Library I have to thank Mr. Frank Maedonagh and Mr. J. D. Noonan, Mrs. M. Pearde Beaufort (to whom the Index is entirely due), and Miss C. J. Hamilton. I am under a similar obligation to Miss A. Cuming for work in the Bodleian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reflections on the Irish State

Author : Garret FitzGerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on the Irish State written by Garret FitzGerald and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He ranges over all the main topics of public and political life in Ireland, from the economic consequences of Ireland's unique demographics to the social effects of the Catholic Church's loss of influence; from the long-term effects of wartime neutrality on Anglo-Irish relations to the recent re-definition of Irish nationalism; from the rationale for Irish independence to the problems created by the electoral and party systems; and from the benefits of the education system to the successes of the European Union in changing a continent beset by wars to one of peaceful progress."--BOOK JACKET.

The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ireland in Fiction

Author : Stephen James Meredith Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ireland in Fiction written by Stephen James Meredith Brown and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Improving Ireland?

Author : Toby Christopher Barnard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Improving Ireland? written by Toby Christopher Barnard and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a series of linked studies, themes of improvement are explored from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. Also discussed are collaborative undertakings that culminated in the work of the Dublin Society."--BOOK JACKET.