Irish Literature in Transition, 1700-1780: Volume 1

Moyra Haslett is Professor of English at Queen's University Belfast. Her first monograph - Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend (1997) - won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize awarded by the British Academy. She is also the author of a popular general book on eighteenth-century literature: From Pope to Burney, Scriblerians to Bluestockings (2003). She is one of the general editors of the Early Irish Fiction, c.1680–1820 series, and has co-edited a special issue of the Irish University Review on the same topic (2011). She is also the Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Irish Song Project (see www.irishsongproject.qub.ac.uk).

'This set will be valuable for those interested in the rich Irish literary tradition, including those desiring to reach beyond accepted historical narratives … Highly recommended.' M. Knight, Choice

• Part I. Starting Points: 1. Starting-points and moving targets: transition and the early modern Marie-Louise Coolahan; 2. 'We Irish': writing and national identity from Berkeley to Burke Ian Campbell Ross; 3. Re-viewing Swift Brean Hammond; Part II. Philosophical and Political Frameworks: 4. The prejudices of Enlightenment David Dwan; 5. The Molyneux problem and Irish Enlightenment Darrell Jones; 6. Samuel Whyte and the politics of eighteenth-century Irish private theatricals Helen M. Burke; Part III. Local, National and Transnational Contexts: 7. Land and landscape in Irish poetry in English, 1700–1780 Andrew Carpenter; 8. The idea of an eighteenth-century national theatre Conrad Brunström; 9. Transnational influence and exchange: the intersections between Irish and French sentimental novels Amy Prendergast; 10. 'An example to the whole world': patriotism and imperialism in early Irish fiction Daniel Sanjiv Roberts; Part IV. Gender and Sexuality: 11. The province of poetry: women poets in early eighteenth-century Ireland Aileen Douglas; 12. Queering eighteenth-century Irish writing: Yahoo, Fribble, Freke Declan Kavanagh; 13. 'Brightest wits and bravest soldiers': Ireland, masculinity, and the politics of paternity Rebecca Anne Barr; 14. Fictions of sisterhood in eighteenth-century Irish literature Moyra Haslett; Part V. Transcultural Contexts: 15. The popular criminal narrative and the development of the Irish novel Joe Lines; 16. Gaelic influences and echoes in the Irish novel, 1700–1780 Anne Markey; 17. New beginning or bearer of tradition? Early Irish fiction and the construction of the child Clíona Ó Gallchoir; Part VI. Retrospective Readings: 18. Re-imagining feminist protest in contemporary translation: The Lament for art O'Leary and The Midnight Court Lesa Ní Mhunghaile; 19. 'Our darkest century': the Irish eighteenth century in memory and modernity James Ward.