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Roaming the World Around: Exile in J.C. Mangan’s Narratives
Displaced characters and alienated lands are always paradoxical figures as they are “both familiar and alienating at once” (Spencer and Valassopoulos...
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Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England
Shakespeare’s plays often prompt us to turn to the Bible and refer to the familiar materials of Christian doctrine to assess the significance of...
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Spreading the News Lady Gregory’s Plays Made It All the Way to China! a Gendered Comparison of “Founding Mothers” Lady Gregory in Revivalist Ireland and Qiu ** in China
This chapter examines how gender complicates my comparison of Irish Revivalism with May Fourth China, by placing leading Irish Revivalist Lady...
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Disability and Class: Blindness and Labor in Post-independence Ireland
The chapter establishes the intersection of disability and class through an analysis of two autobiographies of vision impairment and the history of...
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Fanny Parnell: The Songstress of the Land League
While Charles Stewart Parnell was the leader of the Home Rule movement, it was the Parnell women, most particularly, Fanny, who provided its...
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Italian Cultures, Traditions and Foods in Transition
This chapter focuses on the significance of cultural transfer in migrant contexts, thus on the hybrid products of the contact between Italian and...
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Introduction: Cultural Palimpsests of Place
This book-length study employs literary and artistic works to interpret how a succession of people have lived in each of five global locations—how...
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Unhomely Secrets in the Work of Siobhan Dowd
This chapter examines unhomely secrets in the work of Siobhan Dowd, a London-Irish writer, whose fiction addresses sensitive and defining issues in...
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Lumley, Jane
Jane Lumley (1537–1578), the eldest daughter of Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl of Arundel, and his wife, Katherine Grey, was a Catholic noblewoman who...
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Manuscript Exchange of Poetry and Sociability
This entry considers forms of sociability operating in four social formations in which manuscripts were circulated. The court of Queen Anne Boleyn...
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Inchbald (née Simpson), Elizabeth
Elizabeth Inchbald (née Simpson) (1753–1821) was a celebrated actor, playwright, novelist, and theater critic. Beginning in the 1770s, she performed...
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Haunted Manor Houses and Bum** Monsters: The Paradigm of the No-Home in J.S. Le Fanu’s Narratives
J.S. Le Fanu’s 1864 Bentley Agreement implied a change in settings, from Irish landscapes to English locations, and from rural to urban dwellings....
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Drama by Katherine Philips
John Dryden considered Katherine Philips (1632–1664) one of the greatest female writers in the seventeenth century. Raised by a middle-class Puritan...
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Repetitions of the Past: J. S. Le Fanu’s Wylder’s Hand
This chapter considers modernity’s dream of a ‘radical rupture’ between past and present through Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel Wylder’s Hand...
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‘A Place in Hungary’: The Phantasmal Dublin of Ulysses
At the centenary of its publication in 1922, James Joyce’s Ulysses prompts reflection on its relation to a political event which took place in the...
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Yeats’s Reception in China: How Chinese May Fourth Writers Translated Yeats and the Irish Revival
This chapter assesses how Chinese May Fourth writers translated the Irish Revival and Yeatsian plays, poetry, and critical writings for various...
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“From the Periphery of the Metropolis”: On Joyce’s Modern/ist Irish Peripherealities
Joyce’s Ulysses displays one of the most complex textualizations of a spatially connoted idea of modernity based on early twentieth-century Dublin...
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Moral Prudery, Respectability, and Broken Intimacies
The family cell discussed in Chap. 2 constituted one of the main pillars of the cult of respectability,...
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Roman Catholicism
There has been a tradition of anti-Catholic writing in English from the Reformation through to the Gothic novel. At the mid century, countless...
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Kate Kennedy, Irish Famine Refugee and American Feminist
Famine refugee Kate Kennedy, one of the most politically effective women in nineteenth-century America, is also one of the most obscured. Born in...