Writing Slums

Dublin, Dirt and Literature

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Nils Beese

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Reimagining Ireland

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Dublin’s slums were once considered the worst in Europe. The city’s tenements were omnipresent and their inhabitants were plagued by poverty. Illuminating the intricate relationship between the «dirty» cityscape and Dublin literature from 1880 to 1920, this seminal book offers new socio-historical, cultural and political insights into one of the most interesting periods of Irish literature and history. As well as delineating the characteristics of Dublin slum literature as a genre, the book challenges general assumptions about the Literary Revival as a mainly rural movement and discusses representations of slums in a variety of texts by «Alpha and Omega», James Connolly, Fannie Gallaher, May Laffan, Seumas O’Sullivan, Frederick Ryan, James Stephens, Katharine Tynan and many others. In addition, it reassesses W. B. Yeats’s and James Joyce’s literary genealogy in the context of the urban literary-historical discourse and analyses the impact of slums on their writing strategies. This work will be essential reading for scholars and students of Irish literature and cultural history.

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Nils Beese completed his PhD in Irish literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He also holds master’s degrees from the University of Rochester, New York, and from Trinity College Dublin.

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August 31st, 2018

Author

Nils Beese

Series

Reimagining Ireland

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Series edited by Eamon Maher

Pages

324

Edition

New edition

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Professional & Vocational

ISBN-13

9781787079595

Product ID

28353973

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