Essays on James Clarence Mangan : the man in the cloak / edited by] Sinead Sturgeon, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sturgeon, Sinéad, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mangan, James Clarence, 1803-1849--Criticism and interpretation.

Mangan, James Clarence.

Mangan, James Clarence, 1803-1849.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 242 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"This volume explores the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century, and a crucial influence on WB Yeats and James Joyce. It is the first collection of essays to focus on Mangan, and features articles by leading scholars in the field, including David Lloyd, as well as contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. The collection expands existing fields of debate - translation, the supernatural, intertexuality, nationalism, romanticism - and introduces new ones: Mangan's afterlife in the English literary canon, cosmopolitanism and Weltliteratur, antiquity and futurity, nineteenth-century spiritualism and magical thinking. 'The Man in the Cloak', one of Mangan's favourite pseudonyms, is still a resonant soubriquet for a writer who has largely eluded critical attention, and this volume restores him to his proper place in European and British, as well as Irish literary history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsAbbreviationsOn the Tiles with J.C. Mangan; Paul MuldoonIntroduction; Sine;ad Sturgeon1. Unauthorised Mangan; Sean Ryder2. Mangan in England; Matthew Campbell 3. Crossing Over: On Mangan's 'Spirit's Everywhere'; David Lloyd4. 'Fully Able /To Write in Any Language

I'm a Babel': James Clarence Mangan and the Task of the Translator; David Wheatley5. 'Antiquity and Futurity' in the Writings of James Clarence Mangan; Joseph Lennon6. Cosmopolitan Form: Mangan's Anthologies and the Critique of Weltliteratur; Cóilín Parsons7. Night Singer: Mangan Among the Birds; Sine;ad Sturgeon8. 'The last of the bardic poets': Joyce's Multiple Mangans; John McCourt9. '[M]y mind is destroying me': Consciousness, 'Psychological Narrative,' and Supernaturalist Modes in Mangan's Fiction; Richard Haslam10. The Spiritual 'vastation' of James Clarence Mangan: Magic, Technology, and Identity; Anne Jamison11. Shades of Mangan; Ciaran Carson BibliographyIndex.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137273376

1137273372

OCLC:

881655861