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Capturing the emerging trends and current debates in contemporary scholarship, this volume will interest scholars and students of Irish literature and culture. Its diverse chapters will help readers understand Irish writing through innovative contexts ranging from political and social history to the recovery of previously neglected authors.

Exploring Irish fiction, poetry, and drama through the lens of nationalism, diaspora, and the catastrophes of famine and emigration, this volume offers a new perspective of emergent literature in the Victorian age. This book is a key resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century studies and English literature.

Presenting a vibrant account of Ireland's literary voices, this volume will be a key reference for scholars and students of Irish literature and English romanticism. It offers a new account of the years that formed the crucible of Irish writing in English, taking account of colonial, European, and transatlantic contexts.

This is among the very first collections for graduates and researchers to track Irish and Northern Irish writing across the twentieth century's long turn, and the remarkable transitions that accompanied it. It revisits major writers and texts, providing path-making accounts of emergent figures through a range of perspectives.

These essays will engage readers interested in Ireland's history between the Second World War and the Troubles, with analysis of Ireland's literary connections to Europe and America, surveys of Irish censorship, publishing and criticism, and discussions of individual authors including Sean O'Faolain, Samuel Beckett, Edna O'Brien and John McGahern.