Ireland And The Fiction Of Improvement
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Ireland And The Fiction Of Improvement
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Author : Helen O'Connell
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-09-21
Ireland And The Fiction Of Improvement written by Helen O'Connell and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Improvement Of Ireland
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Author : John Beare
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-03
Improvement Of Ireland written by John Beare and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-03 with Political Science categories.
Excerpt from Improvement of Ireland: A Letter to the King on the Practical Improvement of Ireland for, whatever topics of transient and imme diate interest, may occasionally and for a mo ment, supersede in the public mind the discus sion' of subjects peculiarly connected with the condition of your Majesty's kingdom of Ireland, there are no considerations to be placed in per manent competition with them, either as a theme for the dispassionate politician, or as an incentive to the active efforts and the warm aspirations of the patriot and the philanthropist. 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.
An Essay On The Trade And Improvement Of Ireland By Arthur Dobbs Esq
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Author : Arthur Dobbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1729
An Essay On The Trade And Improvement Of Ireland By Arthur Dobbs Esq written by Arthur Dobbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1729 with categories.
An Essay On The Trade And Improvement Of Ireland By Arthur Dobbs Esq
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Author : Arthur Dobbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1729
An Essay On The Trade And Improvement Of Ireland By Arthur Dobbs Esq written by Arthur Dobbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1729 with categories.
Irish Novels 1890 1940
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Author : John Wilson Foster
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-02-21
Irish Novels 1890 1940 written by John Wilson Foster and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Irish Materialisms
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Author : Colleen Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-25
Irish Materialisms written by Colleen Taylor and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-25 with History categories.
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.
The Oxford Handbook Of Modern Irish Fiction
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Author : Liam Harte
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-15
The Oxford Handbook Of Modern Irish Fiction written by Liam Harte and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Ireland In Fiction
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Author : Stephen J. M. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-15
Ireland In Fiction written by Stephen J. M. Brown and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Ireland In Official Print Culture 1800 1850
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Author : Niall Ó Ciosáin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-02
Ireland In Official Print Culture 1800 1850 written by Niall Ó Ciosáin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02 with History categories.
Analyses the construction and dissemination of the image conveyed of Irish society in the early nineteenth century
Ireland And The Home Rule Movement Classic Reprint
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Author : Michael F. J. McDonnell
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-09-17
Ireland And The Home Rule Movement Classic Reprint written by Michael F. J. McDonnell and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-17 with Political Science categories.
Excerpt from Ireland and the Home Rule Movement The great tendency which has been so marked a feature of Irish life in the course of the last decade to turn the attention of the people towards efforts at self improvement and the development of self-reliance without regard to English aid, English neglect, or English Opinion, excellent though it has been in every other respect, has had this one drawback - that there has grown up a generation of Englishmen, well intentioned towards our country, to whom the problems of Irish Government are an unknown quantity. The ignorance of Irish affairs in England is due partly to ourselves, but also to a natural heed lessness arising from distance and preoccupation with problems with which Englishmen are more intimately concerned. 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.