Making maps: Irish literature in transition, 1780–1830
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2020-02-01
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Connolly, Claire
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Between 1780 and 1830, a highly distinctive body of imaginative writing emerged in Ireland. Novels, poems and plays were formed by and in turn helped to mould the linguistic, political, historical and geographical divisions characteristic of Irish life. The intense and turbulent creative effort involved bore witness to a key transition at the beginning of the nineteenth century: the emergence of modern Irish literature as a distinct cultural category. During these years, Irish literature came to consist of a recognizable body of work, which later generations could draw on, quote, anthologize and debate.
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Modern Irish literature , Imaginative writing , Transition
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Connolly, C. (2020) ‘Making maps: Irish literature in transition, 1780–1830’, in Connolly, C. (ed.), Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830, pp. 1-34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108632218.002
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© 2020, Claire Connolly. Published by Cambridge University Press. This material has been published in Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830, edited by Claire Connolly [http://doi.org/10.1017/9781108632218.002]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use.