Writing Slums: Dublin, Dirt and Literature (Reimagining Ireland, Band 86) - Softcover

Beese

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787079597 ISBN 13: 9781787079595

Verlag: Peter Lang, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Dublin’s slums were once considered the worst in Europe. The city’s tenements were omnipresent and their inhabitants were plagued by poverty. Illuminating the intricate relationship between the «dirty» cityscape and Dublin literature from 1880 to 1920, this seminal book offers new socio-historical, cultural and political insights into one of the most interesting periods of Irish literature and history. As well as delineating the characteristics of Dublin slum literature as a genre, the book challenges general assumptions about the Literary Revival as a mainly rural movement and discusses representations of slums in a variety of texts by «Alpha and Omega», James Connolly, Fannie Gallaher, May Laffan, Seumas O’Sullivan, Frederick Ryan, James Stephens, Katharine Tynan and many others. In addition, it reassesses W. B. Yeats’s and James Joyce’s literary genealogy in the context of the urban literary-historical discourse and analyses the impact of slums on their writing strategies. This work will be essential reading for scholars and students of Irish literature and cultural history.

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Nils Beese is a librarian and literary scholar based in Münster, Germany. He heads the Medical Library at the University and State Library of Münster (ULB Münster) at the University of Münster. He completed his PhD in Irish literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2016 and holds master's degrees from the University of Rochester (New York) and Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on Irish literature and the cultural representation of urban space. Writing Slums (Peter Lang, 2018) is his monograph in the Reimagining Ireland series.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1787079597
• ISBN 13: 9781787079595
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324
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