Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830: Volume 2 Irish Literature in Transition Series

The years between 1780 and 1830 are vital decades in the history of Irish writing in English. This book charts the confluence of Enlightenment, antiquarian, and romantic energies within Irish literary culture and shows how different writers and genres absorbed, dispersed and remade those interests during five decades of political change. During those same years, literature made its own history. By the 1840s, Irish writing formed a recognizable body of work, which later generations would draw on, quote, anthologize and dispute. Questions raised by novels, poems and plays of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the politics of language and voice; the relationship between literature and locality; the possibility of literature as a profession - resonated for many Irish writers over the centuries that followed and continue to matter today. This comprehensive volume will be a key reference for scholars and students of Irish literature and romantic literary studies.

Making maps, Irish literature in transition, 1780–1830 Claire Connolly; Part I. Origins: 1. Gaelic literature in transition 1780–1830 Lesa Ní Mhunghaile; 2. Irish literature and classical modes Norman Vance; Part II. Transitions: 3. Conceptual frameworks: Irish literary theory, from politeness to politics Julia M. Wright; 4. Whigs, weavers and fire-worshippers: anglophone Irish poetry in transition Matthew Campbell; 5. Metropolitan theatre David O'Shaughnessy; 6. Harps and pepperpots, songs and pianos: music and Irish poetry Adrian Paterson; 7. Enlightened Ulster, Romantic Ulster: Irish magazine culture of the Union era Jennifer Orr; Part III. Reputations: 8. Placing Mary Tighe in Irish literary history: from manuscript culture to print Harriet Kramer Linkin; 9. Edgeworth and realism James Chandler; 10. Lady Morgan and 'the babbling page of history': cultural transition as performance in the Irish national tale Nicola Lloyd; 11. 'The diabolical eloquence of horror': Maturin's wanderings Jim Kelly; 12. English Ireland/Irish Ireland: the poetry and translations of J. J. Callanan Gregory A. Schirmer; 13. Thomas Moore and the social life of forms Jane Moore; 14. 'English, Irished': Union and violence in the fiction of John and Michael Banim Willa Murphy; 15. The transition of reputation: Gerald Griffin Mark Corcoran; 16. William Maginn: the Cork correspondent David E. Latané; Part IV. Futures: 17. 'My country takes her place among the nations of the earth': Ireland and the British archipelago in the age of the Union Murray Pittock; 18. Mentalities in transition: Irish Romanticism in European context Joep Leerssen; 19. Ireland and Empire: popular fiction in the wake of the Union Sonja Lawrenson; 20. Transatlantic influences and futures Joseph Rezek; 21. The literary legacies of Irish Romanticism Fiona Stafford.

Claire Connolly is Professor of Modern English at University College Cork, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Her book A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 2011) won the Donald J. Murphy Prize, awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has been a visiting Associate Professor of Irish Studies and English at Boston College, the O'Brien Professor at Concordia University, Montréal and Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.