Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-432) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Culture, climate, capital, and contagion / Malcom Sen -- Landscape and literature in medieval Ireland / Amy C. Mulligan -- The Irish annals and climate, fifth-seventeenth centuries CE / Conor Kostick and Francis Ludlow -- The environmental vocabulary of Irish folklore / Bairbre Ni Fhloinn -- Narratives of arboreal landscapes / Anna Pilz -- Famine and ecology, 1750-1900 / Margaret Kelleher -- Political ecology in nationalist literature, 1880-1922 / Justin Dolan Stover -- Solastalgic modernism and the west in Irish literature, 1900-1950 / Katherine O'Callaghan -- The ecology of the Irish big house, 1900-1950 / Kelly Sullivan -- Refuge and domestic space in Northern Irish poetry, ca. 1940-present / Adam Hanna -- Irish travellers, the environment, and literature / Mary Burke -- The oceanic imaginaries of modern Irish writing / John Brannigan -- Landscape in Irish-language literature : poetry and prose, 1900-2000 / Lousi De Paor -- Poetry and place / Eric Falci -- Animals and climate crisis in Irish poetry / Kathryn Kirkpatrick -- Animals and animality in Irish fiction / Maureen O'Connor -- The Political ecology of food and hunger, 1950-present / Miriam Mara -- Built environments and lived ecologies in contemporary Irish poetry, 1998-present / Julia C. Obert and Nolan Goetzinger -- Transnationalism and environment in contemporary Irish literature / Christine Cusick -- Energy futures in contemporary Irish fiction / Sharae Deckard.
Summary:
"From Gaelic annals and medieval poetry to contemporary Irish literature, A History of Irish Literature and the Environment examines the connections between the Irish environment and Irish literary culture. Themes such as Ireland's island ecology, the ecological history of colonial-era plantation and deforestation, the Great Famine, cultural attitudes towards animals and towards the land, the postcolonial politics of food and energy generation, and the Covid-19 pandemic - this book shows how these factors determine not only a history of the Irish environment but also provide fresh perspectives from which to understand and analyze Irish literature. An international team of contributors provides a comprehensive analysis of Irish literature to show how the literary has always been deeply engaged with environmental questions in Ireland, a crucial new perspective in an age of climate crisis. A History of Irish Literature and the Environment reveals the socio-cultural, racial, and gendered aspects embedded in questions of the Irish environment."--Publisher's website.
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