Literary Networks and Dissenting Print Culture in Romantic-Period Ireland

by Jennifer Orr

Overview

Literary Networks and Dissenting Irish Print Culture examines the origins of Irish labouring-class poetry produced in the liminal space of revolutionary Ulster (1790-1815), where religious dissent fostered a unique and distinctive cultural identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137471529
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/27/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	279
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Orr is Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature at Newcastle University, UK. A graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Glasgow, she has published a number of articles on Romanticism and print culture including an edition of Irish Romantic period correspondence from United Irish circles and several articles on Scottish and Irish dissenting literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Irish Poetic Networks, 1790-1815

1. Sentiment, Sociability and the construction of a poetic network

2. The Creation of Ulster Labouring-class Poetry

3. Revolution and Radical Dissenting Poetry

4. 'Here no treason lurks': Post-Union Bardic Regeneration

5. Dissenting Romanticism in the Early Enion Period

6. Metropolitan Print Culture and the Creation of Literary Ulster

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes

Index