Drunkenness in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Irish Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Del i serien Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures

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Since the emergence of the ‘Stage Irishman’ in early modern London, Ireland’s national character, both at home and abroad, has been associated with drunkenness. Today, this fondness for drink is marketed as a sign of Irish people’s irrepressible sociability, but historically it was read as evidence of an innate propensity for disorder. This book tracks depictions of drunkenness in Irish literature alongside international trends, such as the medicalisation of ‘habitual drunkenness’ in the late-eighteenth century, the rise of the Temperance Movement in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the dawn of the Age of Psychiatry in the later nineteenth century. As this book demonstrates, in Ireland these developments were filtered through a distinct political reality, one in which an insecure colonial elite sought to defend its position in the context of the vexed question of the country’s capacity for self-governance.

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Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399521314

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Lucy Cogan is Assistant Professor in Literature and Medical Humanities at University College Dublin and Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Trust funded project, “Drinking Cultures: The Cultural Reception of Medical Developments Related to Alcohol in Ireland, 1700-1900” (2023-28). Her publications include a monograph, Blake and the Failure of Prophecy (Palgrave, 2021), a medical humanities focused edited collection, Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long-Nineteenth Century (Palgrave, 2022), and a range of articles and essays on eighteenth-century and Romantic era literature.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Alcohol, Power and the Cultural Contamination of Irishness in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1: “Put Your Finger into Every Bottle:” Enclave Paranoia in the Writings of Jonathan Swift2: 'A Fellow that Was Drunken, Fell a Beating of His Wife': Alcohol, Lawlessness, and Elite Irish Masculinity in the Writings of Dorothea Du Bois3: 'Deeper into the Punch-Bowl': Managing the Self, Managing the Nation in the Writings of Maria Edgeworth4: 'Corrupted by Strong Drink': The Politics of Poteen and the Rise of Catholic Ireland in Gerald Griffin’s The Collegians5: 'The Delicious Reek of Whiskey': Madness, Craving and the Collapse of the Enclave in the Irish Writings of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu6. 'I’ve Murder in Me': Drunkenness, Degeneracy and the Perils of Self-Determination in Bram Stoker’s Irish FictionConclusion: Independence and the Long Shadow of the Drunken Irishman BibliographyIndex