A History of Irish Working-Class Writing

ISBN-13: 9781107149687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 478 str.

Michael Pierse

Opis

This book constitutes a wide-ranging and authoritative chronicle of the writing of Irish working-class experience.

Recenzje

'Michael Pierse has done a great service to Irish studies in editing this first comprehensive examination of Irish working-class writing. A real joy of reading this volume is the nuanced and stimulating social analyses alongside literary readings, showing how reading outside the national framework opens up striking new ways of reading the fabric of the nation itself.' Muireann Leech, Biography

Spis treści

Foreword Declan Kiberd; Introduction Michael Pierse; 1. Writing and theorising the Irish working class David Convery; 2. Representing labour: notes towards a political and cultural economy of Irish working-class experience Christopher J. V. Loughlin; 3. Working-class writing in Ireland before 1800: 'some must be poor – we cannot all be great' Andrew Carpenter; 4. 'We wove our ain wab': the Ulster Weaver poets' working lives, myths and afterlives Frank Ferguson; 5. Sub-literatures?: Folk song, memory and Ireland's working poor John Moulden; 6. Writing working-class Irish women Heather Laird; 7. 'Unwriting' the city: narrating class in early twentieth-century Belfast and Dublin (1900–1929) Elizabeth Mannion; 8. Class during the Irish revolution: British soldiers, 1916, and the abject body James Moran; 9. 'An sinne a bhí sa chónra?' – Writing death on the margins in twentieth-century Irish working-class writing Michael Pierse; 10. Writing Irish nurses in Britain Tony Muray; 11. The view from below: solidarity and struggle in Irish-American working-class literature Margaret Hallissy and John Lutz; 12. Irish working-class writing in Australasia, 1860–1960: contrasts and comparisons Peter Kuch; 13. Irish working-class poetry 1900–1960 Niall Carson; 14. 'A system that inflicts suffering upon the many' Paul Delaney; 15. Drama, 1900–1950 Paul Murphy; 16. Seán O'Casey and Brendan Behan: aesthetics, democracy, and the voice of labour John Brannigan; 17. Reshaping well-worn genres: novels of progress and precarity 1960–1998 Mary McGlynn; 18. Locked out: working-class lives in Irish drama 1958–1998 Victor Merriman; 19. Poetry and the working class in Northern Ireland during the troubles Adam Hanna; 20. Class politics and performance in troubles drama: 'history isn't over yet' Mark Phelan; 21. Twentieth-century workers' biography Claire Lynch; 22. Multiple class consciousnesses in writings for theatre during the Celtic Tiger Era Eamonn Jordan; Afterword overdue: the recovery and study of Irish working-class writing, an international perspective H. Gustav Klaus.