Florence Macarthy

Florence Macarthy
Author: Lady Morgan (Sydney)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1818
Genre: Irish in literature
ISBN:

Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale

Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale
Author: Jenny McAuley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131730411X

This is the first modern scholarly edition of Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale (1818). Owenson's seventh novel, it is the most sophisticated of her four 'national tales'. Owenson combined conventional romance plotlines with the political and social problems in Ireland, following the passing of the Act of Union in 1800.

Lady Morgan the Novelist

Lady Morgan the Novelist
Author: James Newcomer
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780838751770

Newcomer concentrates on the fiction of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, especially her Irish novels including The Wild Irish Girl, O'Donnel, Florence Macarthy, and The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys.

A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790–1829

A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790–1829
Author: Claire Connolly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-11-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139503227

Claire Connolly offers a cultural history of the Irish novel in the period between the radical decade of the 1790s and the gaining of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. These decades saw the emergence of a group of talented Irish writers who developed and advanced such innovative forms as the national tale and the historical novel: fictions that took Ireland as their topic and setting and which often imagined its history via domestic plots that addressed wider issues of dispossession and inheritance. Their openness to contemporary politics, as well as to recent historiography, antiquarian scholarship, poetry, song, plays and memoirs, produced a series of notable fictions; marked most of all by their ability to fashion from these resources a new vocabulary of cultural identity. This book extends and enriches the current understanding of Irish Romanticism, blending sympathetic textual analysis of the fiction with careful historical contextualization.

Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

Heathcliff and the Great Hunger
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781859849323

Heathcliff and the Great Hunger examines Irish culture from Swift to Joyce, in the light of the tortuous, often tragic, history that conditioned it.

Irish Materialisms

Irish Materialisms
Author: Colleen Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2024-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 019889483X

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.