A Companion to Irish Literature : 2 Volume Set (Hardcover)

VOLUME I

Acknowledgments xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Introduction 1
Julia M. Wright

Part One: The Middle Ages 15

1. Táin Bó Cúailnge 17
Ann Dooley

2. Finn and the Fenian Tradition 27
Joseph Falaky Nagy

3. The Reception and Assimilation of Continental Literature 39
Barbara Lisa Hillers

Part Two: The Early Modern Era 57

4. Bardic Poetry, Masculinity, and the Politics of Male Homosociality 59
Sarah E. McKibben

5. Annalists and Historians in Early Modern Ireland, 1450–1700 76
Bernadette Cunningham

6. “Hungry Eyes” and the Rhetoric of Dispossession: English Writing from Early Modern Ireland 92
Patricia Palmer

7. Kinds of Irishness: Henry Burnell and Richard Head 108
Deana Rankin

Part Three: The Eighteenth Century 125

8. Crossing Acts: Irish Drama from George Farquhar to Thomas Sheridan 127
Helen M. Burke

9. Parnell and Early Eighteenth-Century Irish Poetry 142
Andrew Carpenter

10. Jonathan Swift and Eighteenth-Century Ireland 161
Clement Hawes

11. Merriman’s Cúirt An Mheonoíche and Eighteenth-Century Irish Verse 178
Liam P. Ó Murchú

12. Frances Sheridan and Ireland 193
Kathleen M. Oliver

13. “The Indigent Philosopher”: Oliver Goldsmith 210
James Watt

14. Edmund Burke 226
Luke Gibbons

15. The Drama of Richard Brinsley Sheridan 243
Robert W. Jones

Part Four: The Romantic Period 259

16. United Irish Poetry and Songs 261
Mary Helen Thuente

17. Maria Edgeworth and (Inter)national Intelligence 276
Susan Manly

18. Mary Tighe: A Portrait of the Artist for the Twenty-First Century 292
Harriet Kramer Linkin

19. Thomas Moore: After the Battle 310
Jeffery Vail

20. The Role of the Political Woman in the Writings of Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) 326
Susan B. Egenolf

Part Five: The Rise of Gothic 343

21. Charles Robert Maturin: Ireland’s Eccentric Genius 345
Robert Miles

22. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Gothic Grotesque and the Huguenot Inheritance 362
Alison Milbank

23. A Philosophical Home Ruler: The Imaginary Geographies of Bram Stoker 377
Lisa Hopkins

Part Six: The Victorian Era 393

24. Scribes and Storytellers: The Ethnographic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Ireland 395
Stiofán Ó Cadhla

25. Reconciliation and Emancipation: The Banims and Carleton 411
Helen O’Connell

26. Davis, Mangan, Ferguson: Irish Poetry, 1831–1849 427
Matthew Campbell

27. The Great Famine in Literature, 1846–1896 444
Melissa Fegan

28. Dion Boucicault: From Stage Irishman to Staging Nationalism 460
Scott Boltwood

29. Oscar Wilde’s Convictions, Speciesism, and the Pain of Individualism 476
Dennis Denisoff

VOLUME TWO

Introduction 1
Julia M. Wright

Part Seven: Transitions: Victorian, Revival, Modern 17

30. Cultural Nationalism and Irish Modernism 19
Michael Mays

31. Defining Irishness: Bernard Shaw and the Irish Connection on the English Stage 35
Christopher Innes

32. The Novels of Somerville and Ross 50
Vera Kreilkamp

33. W.B. Yeats and the Dialectics of Misrecognition 66
Gregory Castle

34. John Millington Synge – Playwright and Poet 83
Ann Saddlemyer

35. James Joyce and the Creation of Modern Irish Literature 98
Michael Patrick Gillespie

Part Eight: Developments in Genre and Representation after 1930 113

36. The Word of Politics/Politics of the Word: Immanence and Transdescendence in Sean O’Casey and Samuel Beckett 115
Sandra Wynands

37. Elizabeth Bowen: A Home in Writing 129
Eluned Summers-Bremner

38. Changing Times: Frank O’Connor and Seán O’Faoláin 144
Paul Delaney

39. “Ireland is small enough”: Louis MacNeice and Patrick Kavanagh 159
Alan Gillis

40. Irish Mimes: Flann O’Brien 176
Joseph Brooker

Part Nine: Debating Social Change after 1960 193

41. Reading William Trevor and Finding Protestant Ireland 195
Gregory A. Schirmer

42. The Mythopoeic Ireland of Edna O’Brien’s Fiction 209
Maureen O’Connor

43. Anglo-Irish Confl ict in Jennifer Johnston’s Fiction 224
Silvia Diez Fabre

44. Living History: The Importance of Julia O’Faolain’s Fiction 234
Christine St Peter

45. Holding a Mirror Up to a Society in Evolution: John McGahern 248
Eamon Maher

Part Ten: Contemporary Literature: Print, Stage, and Screen 263

46. Brian Friel: From Nationalism to Post-Nationalism 265
F.C. McGrath

47. Telling the Truth Slant: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney 281
Eugene O’Brien

48. Belfast Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Medbh McGuckian 296
Richard Rankin Russell

49. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Work of Witness 312
Guinn Batten

50. Eavan Boland’s Muse Mothers 328
Heather Clark

51. John Banville’s Dualistic Universe 345
Elke D’hoker

52. Between History and Fantasy: The Irish Films of Neil Jordan 360
Brian McIlroy

53. “Keeping That Wound Green”: The Poetry of Paul Muldoon 374
David Wheatley

54. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and the “Continuously Contemporary” 390
Frank Sewell

55. The Anxiety of Infl uence and the Fiction of Roddy Doyle 410
Danine Farquharson

56. The Reclamation of “Injurious Terms” in Emma Donoghue’s Fiction 425
Jennifer M. Jeffers

57. Martin McDonagh and the Ethics of Irish Storytelling 436
Patrick Lonergan

Index 451