Animals in Irish literature and culture / edited by Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Borbála Faragó.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirkpatrick, Kathryn J., editor.

Faragó, Borbála, editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in animals and literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors.

Animals in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 270 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, and includes essays exploring some of Ireland's better known animals--birds, horses, pigs, cows, and dogs--as well as its less considered animals--hares, foxes, eels, and insects. The collection also unsettles the boundaries and definitions of 'nation' by exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders. In essays addressing a range of Irish cultural production, contributors consider the impacts of conceptual categories of nature, animality, and humanness on actual human and animal lives. Emerging in the era of the sixth mass extinction, brought on by human-induced climate change and habitat destruction, this volume aims to make a contribution to eco-critical thought and practice in Irish Studies and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Part I: Hunting and Consuming Animals

Our sep'rate Natures are the same': Reading Blood Sports in Irish Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century / Lucy Collins

Quick Red Foxes: Irish Women Write the Hunt / Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Dennis O'Driscoll's Beef with the Celtic Tiger / Amanda Sperry

Porcine Pasts and Bourgeois Pigs: Consumption and the Irish Counterculture / Sarah L. Townsend

Part II: Gender, Sexuality, and the Animals

Their disembodied voices cry': Marine Animals and Their Songs of Absence in the Poetry of Sinead Morrissey, Caitriona O'Riley, and the Mary O'Donoghue / Katarzyna Poloczek

Hares and Hags: Becoming Animal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Dún na mBan trí Thine / Sarah O'Connor

Even the animals in the fields': Animals, Queers, and Violence / Ed Madden

A pedigree bitch, like myself': (Non)Human Illness and Death in Dorothy Molloy's Poetry / Luz Mar Gonzalez-Arias

Part III: Challenging Habitats

Impersonating Authority: Animals and the Anglo-Irish Social Order in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui and Edmund Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale / Andrew Smyth

Do You Dance, Minnaloushe?' Yeats's Animal Questions / Liam Young

Room for Creatures': Francis Harvey's Bestiary / Donna Potts

A capacity for sustained flight': Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Ecology of Avian Encounter / Christine Cusick

Part IV: Unsettling Animals

Mad Dogs and Irishmen: Dogs, Dracula, and the Colonial Irish Other / Jeanne Dubino

The Celtic Tiger's Equine Imaginary / Maria Pramaggiore

Transnational

Transanimal: Reading the Insect in Migrant Irish Poetry / Borbala Farago

Strange Becomings: Paul Muldoon's Maggot / Tom Herron.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137434791

1137434791

OCLC:

898924657