Irish Romanticism, rhetoric, and writing / James Kelly

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Jim, 1976- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Romanticism--Ireland--19th century.

Romanticism.

English literature--Irish authors.

Ireland.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"From 1800 to 1830, Irish writers and orators gave a new visibility and viability to Irish literature in English. This groundbreaking survey of Irish literature of the period provides an enlightening and accessible account covering both well-known authors like Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, Charles Maturin, and Thomas Moore, and a cacophony of less well-known voices. Figures from barristers to politicians, from ideologues to academics, and from hacks to ascetics together created a rowdy and flamboyant debate about the nature of Irish genius. Frequently rejected by British and Irish observers alike as overly florid and suspiciously sentimental, Irish writing in the Romantic period gives a fascinating window into debates about the role and nature of oratory in an increasingly democratising society. This is a landmark study not only in the field of Irish literature, but also in wider histories of rhetoric and the Romantic period"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Introduction : figures and feelings in Irish romanticism

‘The spell of sweet persuasion’ : Sydney Owenson on eloquence and the nation

‘The manner of being’ : Edgeworth, rhetoric, and realism

‘Irish oratory and Scotch reviewing’ : persuasion and conviction in post-Napoleonic Britain

The beggar at the door : Thomas Moore and the tone of Irish romanticism

‘The pollution of my own cathedral’ : the revelations of Charles Robert Maturin

‘The great, the good, the eloquent, the Irish, the Catholic O’Connell’ : the Banim brothers and literature in the decade of emancipation

Conclusion : ‘Clouds of sublimated nonsense’; Irish eloquence after/during history

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed May 20, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Kelly, Jim, 1976- Irish Romanticism, rhetoric, and writing

ISBN:

9781009605786

100960578X

9781009605762

1009605763

OCLC:

1591602665

Publisher Number:

CIPO000377169

CIPO000381749

Access Restriction:

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