Essays on James Clarence Mangan

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Sinéad Sturgeon

   Pages 1-13

3. Crossing Over

   • David Lloyd

   Pages 14-32

4. ‘Fully able / to write in any language — I’m a Babel’

   • David Wheatley

   Pages 33-52

5. ‘Antiquity and Futurity’ in the Writings of James Clarence Mangan

   • Joseph Lennon

   Pages 53-83

6. Cosmopolitan Form: Mangan’s Anthologies and the Critique of Weltliteratur

   • Cóilín Parsons

   Pages 84-101

7. Night Singer: Mangan Among the Birds

   • Sinéad Sturgeon

   Pages 102-123

8. ‘The last of the bardic poets’

   • John McCourt

   Pages 124-139

9. ‘[M]y mind is destroying me’: Consciousness, ‘Psychological Narrative’, and Supernaturalist Modes in Mangan’s Fiction

   • Richard Haslam

   Pages 140-162

10. The Spiritual ‘Vastation’ of James Clarence Mangan

    • Anne Jamison

    Pages 163-183

11. Unauthorized Mangan

    • Sean Ryder

    Pages 184-200

12. Mangan in England

    • Matthew Campbell

    Pages 201-220

13. Afterword

    • Ciaran Carson

    Pages 221-229

14. Back Matter

    Pages 230-242

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This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century. It features contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers including Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson.

• critique
• fiction
• Narrative
• British and Irish Literature

• Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland

  Sinéad Sturgeon

Matthew Campbell, University of York, UK Ciaran Carson, Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland Richard Haslam, Saint Joseph's University, USA Anne Jamison, University of Western Sydney, Australia Joseph Lennon, Villanova University, USA David Lloyd, University of California, USA John McCourt, Università Roma Tre, Italy Paul Muldoon, Princeton University, USA Cóilín Parsons, Georgetown University, USA Sean Ryder, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Sinéad Sturgeon, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland David Wheatley, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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