Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • VOLUME I
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Recovery and Reassessment
  • Sketching Literary Histories
  • Fifteen Centuries, Six Parts
  • Part One: The Middle Ages
  • 1: Táin Bó Cúailnge
  • 2: Finn and the Fenian Tradition
  • 3: The Reception and Assimilation of Continental Literature
  • Introduction
  • The Reception of Latin Literature
  • Latin Epic or Irish Saga, Literature or Historiography?
  • Literary Responses to the Viking Incursions
  • The Reception of Anglo-Norman Literature
  • The Dánta Grádha and L'Amour Courtois in IrelandConclusion
  • Part Two: The Early Modern Era
  • 4: Bardic Poetry, Masculinity, and the Politics of Male Homosociality
  • 5: Annalists and Historians in Early Modern Ireland, 1450-1700
  • A Traditional World, 1450-1550
  • Beginnings of Change, 1560-1600
  • Adapting to Change, 1601-1640
  • Discontinuities, 1641-1700
  • 6: "Hungry Eyes" and the Rhetoric of Dispossession: English Writing from Early Modern Ireland
  • 7: Kinds of Irishness: Henry Burnell and Richard Head
  • Henry Burnell: "the rest degenerate."
  • Richard Head: "onely a Wiseacre ... I have no Acres of Land"Conclusion: "no Utopian stories ... "
  • Part Three: The Eighteenth Century
  • 8: Crossing Acts: Irish Drama from George Farquhar to Thomas Sheridan
  • 9: Parnell and Early Eighteenth-Century Irish Poetry
  • 10: Jonathan Swift and Eighteenth-Century Ireland
  • Made in Ireland
  • Modes of National Belonging
  • Writing Ireland
  • A Colonial Nationalism?
  • Monumentality
  • 11: Merriman's Cúirt An Mheonoíche and Eighteenth-Century Irish Verse
  • 12: Frances Sheridan and Ireland
  • Depicting National Character: Memoirs of Miss Sidney BidulphAbusing (the) English: Sheridan's Comedies
  • Reforming Lord George Sackville: The History of Nourjahad
  • Conclusion
  • 13: "The Indigent Philosopher": Oliver Goldsmith
  • "Our Conquered Kingdom"
  • "A Philosophic Vagabond"
  • Citizens of the World
  • The Patriot's Boast
  • "England's Griefs"
  • The Beauties of Goldsmith
  • 14: Edmund Burke
  • 15: The Drama of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Part Four: The Romantic Period
  • 16: United Irish Poetry and Songs
  • 17: Maria Edgeworth and (Inter)national IntelligenceThe "Public Woman" in Edgeworth's Letters for Literary Ladies and Leonora
  • "Savage Policy" and "Despotic Benevolence": Edgeworth's Essay on Irish Bulls (1802) and Ennui (1809)
  • Conclusion
  • 18: Mary Tighe: A Portrait of the Artist for the Twenty-First Century
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • 19: Thomas Moore: After the Battle
  • 20: The Role of the Political Woman in the Writings of Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson)
  • Part Five: The Rise of Gothic
  • 21: Charles Robert Maturin: Ireland's Eccentric Genius