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Essays on James Clarence Mangan

The Man in the Cloak

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Sinéad Sturgeon

    1. Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Sinéad Sturgeon

About the editor

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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