Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Marguérite Corporaal, Christina Morin

   Pages 1-12

3. Exploring the Continent: Traveling Irish

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Travel Literature and Traveling Irishness: An Italian Case Study

      • Anne O’Connor

      Pages 15-33

   3. Mabel Sharman Crawford’s Life in Tuscany: Ulster Radicalism in a Hot Climate

      • Peter Gray

      Pages 35-50

   4. On the Specificity of Irish Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Maria Frances Dickson’s Journeys to the Continent and Kilkee

      • Joachim Fischer

      Pages 51-77

4. Traveling Genres, Movements, and Forms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. William Orpen (1878–1931): A Voice for Pluralism in the Long Nineteenth Century

      • Anne Cormican

      Pages 81-102

   3. Traveling Cabins: The Popularity of Irish Local-Color Fiction in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe

      • Marguérite Corporaal

      Pages 103-118

   4. Traveling Irishness and the Transnational James Connolly

      • Peter D. O’Neill

      Pages 119-138

5. Representations of Traveling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. He Should Go to the Théâtre François: Paris, the Theater, and Maria Edgeworth’s Ormond

      • Matthew L. Reznicek

      Pages 141-162

   3. Getting Back to Ireland: Charles Lever’s Soldiers of Fortune, Tourists, and Irishmen in Reverse

      • Jim Shanahan

      Pages 163-181

6. Experiencing Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Irish Gothic Goes Abroad: Cultural Migration, Materiality, and the Minerva Press

      • Christina Morin

      Pages 185-203

   3. Reading the Fenian Romance: Irish-American and Irish-Canadian Versions of the National Tale

      • Jason King

      Pages 205-223

   4. A Cork Scribe in Victorian London

      • Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail

      Pages 225-245

7. Back Matter

   Pages 247-258

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Exploring the effects of traveling, migration, and other forms of cultural contact, particularly within Europe, this edited collection explores the act of traveling and the representation of traveling by Irish men and women from diverse walks of life in the period between Grattan’s Parliament (1782) and World War I (1914). This was a period marked by an increasing physical and cultural mobility of Irish throughout Britain, Continental Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific. Travel was undertaken for a variety of reasons: during the Romantic period, the ‘Grand Tour’ and what is now sometimes referred to as medical tourism brought Irish artists and intellectuals to Europe, where cultural exchanges with other writers, artists, and thinkers inspired them to introduce novel ideas and cultural forms to their Irish audiences. Showing this impact of the nineteenth-century Irish across national borders and their engagement with global cultural and linguistic traditions, the volume will provide novel insights into the transcultural spheres of the arts, literature, politics, and translation in which they were active. 

• Irish Literature
• Mobility
• Travel
• Migration
• Transcultural
• Irishness
• British and Irish Literature

“Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century is a strong contribution to the fields of Irish and Victorian studies, as well as to transnational and transcultural theory more broadly.” (Mary L. Mullen, Victorian Studies, Vol. 61 (4), 2019)

• Department of English, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  Marguérite Corporaal

• School of Culture and Communication, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

  Christina Morin

Marguérite Corporaal is Associate Professor in English Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.





Christina Morin is a Lecturer in English at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

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