'… Connolly's book's self-professed goal of 'reorienting our understanding of Irish literature' remains an essential task even after decades of significant developments. I imagine that a work of this quality might be able to achieve that goal, as well.' Brian C. Cooney, European Romantic Review
Making maps, Irish literature in transition, 1780–1830 Claire Connolly; Part I. Origins: 1. Gaelic literature in transition 1780–1830 Lesa Ní Mhunghaile; 2. Irish literature and classical modes Norman Vance; Part II. Transitions: 3. Conceptual frameworks: Irish literary theory, from politeness to politics Julia M. Wright; 4. Whigs, weavers and fire-worshippers: anglophone Irish poetry in transition Matthew Campbell; 5. Metropolitan theatre David O'Shaughnessy; 6. Harps and pepperpots, songs and pianos: music and Irish poetry Adrian Paterson; 7. Enlightened Ulster, Romantic Ulster: Irish magazine culture of the Union era Jennifer Orr; Part III. Reputations: 8. Placing Mary Tighe in Irish literary history: from manuscript culture to print Harriet Kramer Linkin; 9. Edgeworth and realism James Chandler; 10. Lady Morgan and 'the babbling page of history': cultural transition as performance in the Irish national tale Nicola Lloyd; 11. 'The diabolical eloquence of horror': Maturin's wanderings Jim Kelly; 12. English Ireland/Irish Ireland: the poetry and translations of J. J. Callanan Gregory A. Schirmer; 13. Thomas Moore and the social life of forms Jane Moore; 14. 'English, Irished': Union and violence in the fiction of John and Michael Banim Willa Murphy; 15. The transition of reputation: Gerald Griffin Mark Corcoran; 16. William Maginn: the Cork correspondent David E. Latané; Part IV. Futures: 17. 'My country takes her place among the nations of the earth': Ireland and the British archipelago in the age of the Union Murray Pittock; 18. Mentalities in transition: Irish Romanticism in European context Joep Leerssen; 19. Ireland and Empire: popular fiction in the wake of the Union Sonja Lawrenson; 20. Transatlantic influences and futures Joseph Rezek; 21. The literary legacies of Irish Romanticism Fiona Stafford.