Representing the national landscape in Irish Romanticism /

Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an ideology which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish Revival's celebration of the Irish peasant farmer as the ideal Irishman to the fierce history of land claim battles between the Irish and their colonizers, notions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, Julia M. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=714627
Table of Contents:
  • The maids of Killarney : transatlantic circulation and the origins of the national tale
  • "This vale of tears" : Glendalough and the Gothic
  • Transatlantic movements : exile and migration
  • From terror to terrorism : Gothic movements in England
  • Foreign landscapes and the domestication of the national subject
  • Geopolitics from Drennan to Cavour : locating Ireland in a changing Europe.