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Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Literature and Periodical Culture

Edited by Elke D'hoker and Phyllis Boumans

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£145.00

About this book

Sheds new light on the impact of magazine culture on Irish literature from the 1800s to the present

  • Challenges and complements standard narratives of Irish literature history by foregrounding the role periodicals have played in their development and dissemination
  • Showcases new methods and theories at the crossroads of Irish studies, periodical studies, literary history and digital humanities
  • Investigates the different agents in periodical networks: authors, editors, illustrators, translators, readers
  • Uses (digital) archives to recover forgotten voices and to cast new light canonical writers and texts
  • Considers the circulation of Irish writers in UK and US magazines as well as the reception of international writers in Irish magazines
  • Offers cutting-edge scholarship on Irish literary magazines from the nineteenth century to the present day

This Companion examines the manifold interactions between Irish literature and the periodical press since the nineteenth century. The thirty original contributions map a highly diverse Irish and international magazine landscape that has played a crucial role in fostering, mediating, circulating and translating Irish poetry and prose. By bringing new archival material to bear on canonical writers such as Emily Lawless, Mary Lavin, John McGahern and James Joyce, this book showcases cutting-edge research situated at the crossroads of Irish studies, periodical criticism and the digital humanities. It offers a variegated view of the different agents in transnational periodical networks, investigating the role of authors, editors, publishers and readers in Ireland, as well as considering the circulation of Irish writers in British and American publications. It also recovers forgotten voices by providing the first comprehensive critical accounts of little magazines including A Celtic Christmas, Honest Ulsterman, Kilkenny Magazine, Broadsheet, The Dubliner and Surge. Altogether, The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Literature and Periodical Culture demonstrates the pivotal role of periodicals in the codification of genres and the formation of an Irish literary canon.

Reviews

This highly absorbing and informative volume provides a much needed history of Irish periodical culture: individual essays illuminate the diversity and vitality of Irish literary magazines and journals, along with fascinating transnational dimensions. Overall the collection confirms the centrality of periodicals, as media and material objects, in the making of literary success.
Table of contents

List of Illustrations
Funding Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Magazines and the Remapping of Irish Literature
Elke D’hoker and Phyllis Boumans

Part I: Studying Periodical Fiction: Theory and Methods
2. Irish Literature as Periodical Literature: Dykes, Ditches, Fields and Flow
Fionnuala Dillane
3. Irish Periodical Studies and the Digital: Reimagining the Archival Landscape in an Age of Mass Digitisation
Karen Wade
4. Visuality and the Page in Nineteenth-Century Irish Periodicals: Political and Economic Strategies in The Jarvey, Weekly Freeman and The Lady of the House
Elizabeth Tilley

Part II : Editorial Mediations
5. Editing The Shamrock Magazine: Rose Kavanagh and the Role of Late Nineteenth-Century Irish Women Editors
Kathryn Laing
6. Motley Crew: Mary Manning and the Gate Theatre’s Literary Periodical (1932-1934)
Gavin McAlinden
7. Word and Image: The Bell and the Inter-Arts Networks of Late Modernism in Post-War Irish Culture
Conor Linnie

Part III: Defining Irish Culture: Nineteenth-Century Magazines
8. New Frankensteins: Gothic Fiction in Irish Magazines (1830-1840)
Christina Morin
9. The Irish Revival and Annual Supplements: The Irish Homestead’s Christmas Numbers A Celtic Christmas (1897-1910)
Giulia Bruna
10. (Re)Defining Irish Womanhood: Serials and Short Stories in The Lady of the House (1890-1914)
Lauren Ottaviani
11. ‘De Ghaedhilg na hAimsire seo’: The Gaelic Journal/Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge (1882-1909)
Regina Uí Chollatáin

Part IV: Twentieth-Century Little Magazines
12. ’Vivid, Coarse, and Vital Worlds’: Surge and Other Periodicals of the Irish Literary Left
Karl O’Hanlon
13. ‘Coming into his Kingdom’: The Kilkenny Magazine: An All Ireland Literary Review (1960-1970)
Niall Carson
14. Truculence and Abuse: The Little Magazine and its Means of Production in the Modernising 1960s and 1970s
Will Fleming
15. ‘A Gymnasium for Creative Impulse’: Reading The Dubliner (1961-1974)
Tapasya Narang

Part V: Diversifying Irish Literature: Contemporary Magazines
16. Poetry Ireland Review 1981-1998: Poetry, Conflict and the Language of Public Life
Lucy Collins
17. ‘From the twisted branches of civil discord’: Troubled Aesthetics in the Honest Ulsterman, 1968-1986
Scott McKendry
18. Almost a Century: Cyphers Approaches 100 Issues
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
19. 'What's actually happening’: The Stinging Fly, Editorial Practice and Short Fiction
Paul Delaney

Part VI: Dealing with Magazines: Authorial Perspectives
20. Periodical Networks: Emily Lawless’s Journal Contributions (1881-1914)
Heidi Hansson
21. Bullockbefriending, Bullockdefriending: James Joyce Negotiating Periodical and Reprint Culture
Ronan Crowley
22. A Lord Abroad: Tracing the Fiction of Lord Dunsany in British and American Periodicals
Dana Steglich
23. Circulating Stories: Mary Lavin and the Magazine Marketplace
Elke D’hoker
24. Growing Up: John McGahern and the Literary Magazine
Frank Shovlin

Part VII: Transnational Exchanges
25. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: Irish Poetry and ‘The New Poetry’
Tom Walker
26. A New Age: Irish Literature in Modernist British Periodicals
Alex Davis
27. Literary Crossroads: Poetry Translation in Irish Periodicals, 1920s–1950s
Hitomi Nakamura
28. ’For Export Only’: Irish Writers and US Magazines at Mid-Century
Sinéad Moynihan
29. The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker: Irish Writers and America’s Big Weeklies in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Open Access)
Yen-Chi Wu
30. ‘Health is in outward looking’: European Literature, Art and Cultural Exchange in Envoy (1949-1951)
Phyllis Boumans

Notes on Contributors
Index

About the contributors

Elke D'hoker

Elke D’hoker is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven and Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She has published widely on Irish fiction, the modern short story, periodical studies and literary pedagogy. She is the author of Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (2016) and Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville (2004). She has edited or co-edited 11 books, including The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2022), Sarah Hall. Critical Essays (2022), Ethel Colburn Mayne. Selected Stories (2021), The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture (2021), The Irish Short Story (2015) and Mary Lavin (2013).

Phyllis Boumans

Phyllis Boumans is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History at Radboud University Nijmegen. She previously worked as Lecturer at Stockholm University. Her work has appeared in Irish University Review, New Hibernia Review and Irish Studies Review, and she is co-editor of a special issue on Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth-Century for the Review of Irish Studies in Europe (2024) and The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2022). Her current postdoctoral project focuses on mid-twentieth-century Irish radio stories.

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