A history of Irish autobiography
2018
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The first ever critical survey of autobiographical self-representation in Ireland from its recoverable beginnings to the twenty-first century. The book draws on a wealth of original scholarship by leading experts to provide an authoritative examination of autobiographical writing in the English and Irish languages. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of autobiography theory and criticism in Ireland, the History guides the reader through seventeen centuries of Irish achievement in autobiography, a category that incorporates diverse literary forms, from religious tracts and travelogues to letters, diaries, and online journals. This ambitious book is rich in insight. Chapters are structured around key subgenres, themes, texts, and practitioners, each featuring a guide to recommended further reading. The volume's extensive coverage is complemented by a detailed chronology of Irish autobiography from the fifth century to the contemporary era, the first of its kind to be published -- Publisher's description.
Main title:
A history of Irish autobiography / edited by Liam Harte, University of Manchester.
Author:
Harte, Liam, editor
Imprint:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Collation:
xxv, 408 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Autobiography theory and criticism in Ireland / Liam Harte -- Writing in medieval Ireland in the first-person voice / Máire Ní Mhaonaigh -- Early modern Irish autobiography / Marie-Louise Coolahan -- Irish Protestant life-writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Elizabeth Grubgeld -- Irish women's spiritual and religious life-writing in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Maria Luddy -- Spiritual and religious life-writing in Ireland since 1900 / Louise Fuller -- Irish political autobiography from Wolfe Tone to Ernie O'Malley / Matthew Kelly -- The memoirs of male politicians in independent Ireland / Eoin O'Malley and Kevin Rafter -- Women's political autobiography in independent Ireland / Margaret O'Callaghan -- Autobiography and the Irish literary revival / Nicholas Allen -- Irish literary autobiography since the Revival / Christina Hunt Mahony -- The Irish autobiographical novel / Jonathan Bolton -- Memoirs of Irish rural life / George O'Brien -- The autobiography of the Irish working class / Emmet O'Connor -- Irish-language autobiography / Bríona Nic Dhiarmada -- Orality and life-writing in modern Ireland / Kelly Fitzgerald and Mary Muldowney -- Southern Irish Protestant autobiography since partition / Robert Tobin -- Northern Irish autobiography since 1960 / Barry Sloan -- The Irish travel memoir I: journeys within Ireland / Glenn Hooper -- The Irish travel memoir II: journeys beyond Ireland / Michael Cronin -- Life-writing and diaspora I: the autobiographical writings of the Irish in the USA and Latin America / Laura P. Z. Izarra and James Silas Rogers -- Life-writing and diaspora II: the autobiographical writings of the Irish in Britain and Australia / Patrick Buckridge and Liam Harte -- The Irish abuse survival memoir Moira J. Maguire -- Irish celebrity autobiography / Anthony P. McIntyre and Diane Negra -- Irish life-writing in the digital era / Claire Lynch.
ISBN:
1107131448 (hbk)9781107131446 (hbk)
Dewey class:
820.9492
Language:
English
BRN:
1108206
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