A Companion to Irish Literature (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Book 140)

Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume __Companion to Irish Literature__ encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day. * Covers an unprecedented historical range of Irish literature * Arranged in two volumes covering Irish literature from the medieval period to 1900, and its development through the twentieth century to the present day * Presents a re-visioning of twentieth-century Irish literature and a collection of the most up-to-date scholarship in the field as a whole * Includes a substantial number of women writers from the eighteenth century to the present day * Includes essays on leading contemporary authors, including Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Roddy Doyle, and Emma Donoghue * Introduces readers to the wide range of current approaches to studying Irish literature Content: Chapter 1 Tain Bo Cuailnge (pages 15–26): Ann DooleyChapter 2 Finn and the Fenian Tradition (pages 27–38): Joseph Falaky NagyChapter 3 The Reception and Assimilation of Continental Literature (pages 39–56): Barbara Lisa HillersChapter 4 Bardic Poetry, Masculinity, and the Politics of Male Homosociality (pages 57–75): Sarah E. McKibbenChapter 5 Annalists and Historians in Early Modern Ireland, 1450–1700 (pages 76–91): Bernadette CunninghamChapter 6 “Hungry Eyes” and the Rhetoric of Dispossession: English Writing from Early Modern Ireland (pages 92–107): Patricia PalmerChapter 7 Kinds of Irishness: Henry Burnell and Richard Head (pages 108–124): Deana RankinChapter 8 Crossing Acts: Irish Drama from George Farquhar to Thomas Sheridan (pages 125–141): Helen M. BurkeChapter 9 Parnell and Early Eighteenth?Century Irish Poetry (pages 142–160): Andrew CarpenterChapter 10 Jonathan Swift and Eighteenth?Century Ireland (pages 161–177): Clement HawesChapter 11 Merriman's Cuirt An Mheonoiche and Eighteenth?Century Irish Verse (pages 178–192): Liam P. O MurchuChapter 12 Frances Sheridan and Ireland (pages 193–209): Kathleen M. OliverChapter 13 “The Indigent Philosopher”: Oliver Goldsmith (pages 210–225): James WattChapter 14 Edmund Burke (pages 226–242): Luke GibbonsChapter 15 The Drama of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (pages 243–258): Robert W. JonesChapter 16 United Irish Poetry and Songs (pages 259–275): Mary Helen ThuenteChapter 17 Maria Edgeworth and (Inter)national Intelligence (pages 276–291): Susan ManlyChapter 18 Mary Tighe: A Portrait of the Artist for the Twenty?First Century (pages 292–309): Harriet Kramer LinkinChapter 19 Thomas Moore: After the Battle (pages 310–325): Jeffery VailChapter 20 The Role of the Political Woman in the Writings of Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) (pages 326–341): Susan B. EgenolfChapter 21 Charles Robert Maturin: Ireland's Eccentric Genius (pages 343–361): Robert MilesChapter 22 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Gothic Grotesque and the Huguenot Inheritance (pages 362–376): Alison MilbankChapter 23 A Philosophical Home Ruler: The Imaginary Geographies of Bram Stoker (pages 377–391): Lisa HopkinsChapter 24 Scribes and Storytellers: The Ethnographic Imagination in Nineteenth?Century Ireland (pages 393–410): Stiofan O CadhlaChapter 25 Reconciliation and Emancipation: The Banims and Carleton (pages 411–426): Helen O'ConnellChapter 26 Davis, Mangan, Ferguson: Irish Poetry, 1831–1849 (pages 427–443): Matthew CampbellChapter 27 The Great Famine in Literature, 1846–1896 (pages 444–459): Melissa FeganChapter 28 Dion Boucicault: From Stage Irishman to Staging Nationalism (pages 460–475): Scott BoltwoodChapter 29 Oscar Wilde's Convictions, Speciesism, and the Pain of Individualism (pages 476–490): Dennis DenisoffChapter 30 Cultural Nationalism and Irish Modernism (pages 17–34): Michael MaysChapter 31 Defining Irishness: Bernard Shaw and the Irish Connection on the English Stage (pages 35–49): Christopher InnesChapter 32 The Novels of Somerville and Ross (pages 50–65): Vera KreilkampChapter 33 W.B. Yeats and the Dialectics of Misrecognition (pages 66–82): Gregory CastleChapter 34 John Millington Synge – Playwright and Poet (pages 83–97): Ann SaddlemyerChapter 35 James Joyce and the Creation of Modern Irish Literature (pages 98–111): Michael Patrick GillespieChapter 36 The Word of Politics/Politics of the Word: Immanence and Transdescendence in Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett (pages 113–128): Sandra WynandsChapter 37 Elizabeth Bowen: A Home in Writing (pages 129–143): Eluned Summers?BremnerChapter 38 Changing Times: Frank O'Connor and Sean O'Faolain (pages 144–158): Paul DelaneyChapter 39 “Ireland is Small Enough”: Louis MacNeice and Patrick Kavanagh (pages 159–175): Alan GillisChapter 40 Irish Mimes: Flann O'Brien (pages 176–191): Joseph BrookerChapter 41 Reading William Trevor and Finding Protestant Ireland (pages 193–208): Gregory A. SchirmerChapter 42 The Mythopoeic Ireland of Edna O'Brien's Fiction (pages 209–223): Maureen O'ConnorChapter 43 Anglo?Irish Conflict in Jennifer Johnston's Fiction (pages 224–233): Silvia Diez FabreChapter 44 Living History: The Importance of Julia O'Faolain's Fiction (pages 234–247): Christine St PeterChapter 45 Holding a Mirror up to a Society in Evolution: John McGahern (pages 248–262): Eamon MaherChapter 46 Brian Friel: From Nationalism to Post?Nationalism (pages 263–280): F. C. McGrathChapter 47 Telling the Truth Slant: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (pages 281–295): Eugene O'BrienChapter 48 Belfast Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Medbh McGuckian (pages 296–311): Richard Rankin RussellChapter 49 Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's Work of Witness (pages 312–327): Guinn BattenChapter 50 Eavan Boland's Muse Mothers (pages 328–344): Heather ClarkChapter 51 John Banville's Dualistic Universe (pages 345–359): Elke D'HokerChapter 52 Between History and Fantasy: The Irish Films of Neil Jordan (pages 360–373): Brian McIlroyChapter 53 “Keeping That Wound Green”: The Poetry of Paul Muldoon (pages 374–389): David WheatleyChapter 54 Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and the “Continuously Contemporary” (pages 390–409): Frank SewellChapter 55 The Anxiety of Influence and the Fiction of Roddy Doyle (pages 410–424): Danine FarquharsonChapter 56 The Reclamation of “Injurious Terms” in Emma Donoghue's Fiction (pages 425–435): Jennifer M. JeffersChapter 57 Martin McDonagh and the Ethics of Irish Storytelling (pages 436–450): Patrick Lonergan