Ireland and Romanticism
Also by Jim Kelly CHARLES MATURIN: Authorship, Authenticity, and the Nation (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011)
Ireland and Romanticism Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production Edited by Jim Kelly
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Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors vii viii Introduction 1 Jim Kelly Scenes: The Country and the City 11 1 Cín Lae Amhlaoibh: Modernization and the Irish Language 13 Proinsias Ó Drisceoil 2 Jemmy O Brien: Informer to Gothic Monster 26 Timothy Webb Influences from Abroad 43 3 Spanish Literature and Irish Romanticism, 1800 50 45 Anne MacCarthy 4 Robert Burns and Hibernia: Irish Romanticism and Caledonia s Bard 59 Stephen Dornan The Irish Writer Abroad 75 5 Transatlantic Tom : Thomas Moore in North America 77 Jane Moore 6 A United Irishman in the Alps: William MacNevin s A Ramble Through Swisserland (1803) 94 Patrick Vincent 7 Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) and the Politics of Romanticism 109 Susan Egenolf Irish Poetry in the Romantic Period 123 8 Drawing Breath: The Origins of Moore s Irish Melodies 125 Adrian Paterson 9 Malvina s Daughters: Irish Women Poets and the Sign of the Bard 141 Leith Davis v
vi Contents Fictions of the Romantic Period 161 10 The Irish Book Trade in the Romantic Period 163 Charles Benson 11 Gothic and National? Challenging the Formal Distinctions of Irish Romantic Fiction 172 Christina Morin 12 Escaping from Barrett s Moon: Recreating the Irish Literary Landscape in the Romantic Period 188 Jim Shanahan Afterword 205 13 Placing Irish and Romanticism in the Same Frame: Prospects 207 Stephen Behrendt Index 221
Acknowledgements My first debt of gratitude is to the contributors to this volume, many of whom contributed encouragement as well as essays. Thanks must also go to my colleagues at NUI Maynooth, particularly Prof. Margaret Kelleher, Prof. Chris Morash, Dr Moynagh Sullivan, and Dr Stephen O Neill, all of whom provided vital advice in the preparation of this collection. I d also like to thank Catherine Mitchell and Christabel Scaife at Palgrave Macmillan for their assistance and patience. vii
Notes on Contributors Stephen Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He has published widely on Romanticperiod literature. His publications include Shelley and His Audiences (1989), Reading William Blake (1992), Royal Mourning and Regency Culture (1997), and British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community (2008). He is also general editor of the Alexander Street Press electronic textbase archive, Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (2008). Charles Benson is Keeper of Early Printed Books at the Old Library, Trinity College Dublin. He has published extensively on Irish book history and is co-editor of That Woman! Studies in Irish Bibliography: A Festschrift for Mary Paul Pollard (2005). He is currently undertaking research on the Dublin book trade, 1801 50. Leith Davis is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She has published extensively on Irish and Scottish literature in the Romantic period. Books include Acts of Union: Scotland and the Literary Negotiation of the British Nation, 1707 1830 (1998), Music, Postcolonialism, Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1724 1874 (2005), and Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (edited with Ian Duncan and Janet Sorensen, 2004). Stephen Dornan is Research Fellow at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He has published a range of articles on Scottish and Ulster poetry in the Romantic period. Susan Egenolf is Lecturer in English at Texas A&M University. She has published a wide range of articles on Irish women s writing in the Romantic period, as well as The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson (2009). Jim Kelly specialises in Romantic period literature in Ireland and Scotland. He has published articles on Irish and Scottish interactions in the period, and contributed entries on Irish Romantic writing to the forthcoming Blackwell s Encyclopedia of Romanticism. Charles Maturin: Authorship, Authenticity, and the Nation will appear in 2011. Anne MacCarthy is Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain. She has published James Clarence Mangan, viii
Notes on Contributors ix Edward Walsh and Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature in English (2000) and Identities in Irish Literature (2004) as well as articles in journals such as The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, New Hibernian Review, ANQ and Notes and Queries, on Mangan, Irish history, Irene Rathbone and translations of Spanish romances. Jane Moore is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University. She is the author of Mary Wollstonecraft t (1999). She has published widely on Thomas Moore, most notably The Satires of Thomas Moore (2003). She is co-editor of The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism (2nd edn, 1997). Christina Morin is a postdoctoral fellow at Queen s University, Belfast. She has published articles on Charles Maturin and Irish Gothic fiction and entries for the online Literary Encyclopædia (http://www.litencyc. com). Proinsias Ó Drisceoil received his Ph.D. from NUI, Galway. He has published extensively on Irish-language literature, including (as editor) Culture in Ireland Regions: Identity and Power (1993), Ar Scaradh Gabhail: An Fhéiniúlacht in Cin Lae Amhlaoibh Uí Shúilleabháin (2000), Seán Ó Dálaigh: Éigse agus Iomarbhá (2007), and (joint author) Foclóir Litríochta agus Critice (2007). Adrian Paterson is a post-doctoral fellow at NUI Galway. He has published a selection of articles on Irish literature and music in journals and edited collections. He is currently writing Words for Music Perhaps: W. B. Yeats and Musical Sense. Jim Shanahan is IRCHSS post-doctoral fellow in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. He has published a range of articles on Irish fiction in the nineteenth century and is currently engaged in researching representations of 1798 in fiction, from 1798 to 1898. Patrick Vincent is Director of the English Department at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, where he holds a chair in English and American literature. His main areas of research are in British, Continental and American Romantic literature, and his publications include: The Romantic Poetess: European Culture, Politics and Gender, 1820 1840 (2004), a co-edited collection on American poetry (2006) and a range of articles on a number of Romantic-period writers including Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Rousseau, Thoreau and Cooper. He is currently finishing a book in French on British representations of the Swiss, writing another monograph on British Romanticism
x Notes on Contributors and Switzerland and leading a Swiss National Research Fund project to edit three revolutionary-period travel narratives. Timothy Webb is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English, University of Bristol. He has published extensively on British Romantic-period writing, including The Violet in the Crucible: Shelley and Translation (1976), English Romantic Hellenism, 1700 1824 (1982), and Percy Shelley, Poems and Prose (1995), along with numerous articles and contributions to books. He is currently working on a biography of Leigh Hunt, and on various articles on archipelagic Romanticism.