"Selected bibliography": pages 259-262. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Kathryn Kirkpatrick -- Hunting and consuming animals: Our sep'rate natures are the same' : reading blood sports in Irish poetry of the long eighteenth century / Lucy Collins. Quick red foxes : Irish women write the hunt / Kathryn Kirkpatrick. Dennis O'Driscoll's beef with the Celtic Tiger / Amanda Sperry. Porcine pasts and bourgeois pigs : consumption and the Irish counterculture / Sarah L. Townsend -- Gender, sexuality, and the animals: 'Their disembodied voices cry' : marine animals and their songs of absence in the poetry of Sinéad Morrissey, Caitriona O'Riley, and Mary O'Donoghue / Katarzyna Poloczek. Hares and hags : becoming animal in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Dún na mBan trí Thine / Sarah O'Connor. 'Even the animals in the fields' : animals, queers, and violence / Ed Madden. 'A pedigree bitch, like myself' : (non)human illness and death in Dorothy Molloy's poetry / Luz Mar Gonzalez-Arias -- Challenging habitats: Impersonating authority : animals and the Anglo-Irish social order in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui and Edmund Spenser's Mother Hubberds tale / Andrew Smyth. "Do you dance, Minnaloushe?' : Yeats's animal questions / Liam Young. 'Room for creatures' : Francis Harvey's Bestiary / Donna Potts. 'A capacity for sustained flight' : contemporary Irish poetry and the ecology of avian encounter / Christine Cusick -- Unsettling animals: Mad dogs and Irishmen : dogs, Dracula, and the colonial Irish other / Jeanne Dubino. The Celtic Tiger's equine imaginary / Maria Pramaggiore. Transnational-transanimal : reading the insect in migrant Irish poetry / Borbala Farago. Strange becomings : Paul Muldoon's Maggot / Tom Herron.
Summary:
"Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, and includes essays exploring some of Ireland's better known animals--birds, horses, pigs, cows, and dogs--as well as its less considered animals--hares, foxes, eels, and insects. The collection also unsettles the boundaries and definitions of 'nation' by exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders. In essays addressing a range of Irish cultural production, contributors consider the impacts of conceptual categories of nature, animality, and humanness on actual human and animal lives. Emerging in the era of the sixth mass extinction, brought on by human-induced climate change and habitat destruction, this volume aims to make a contribution to eco-critical thought and practice in Irish Studies and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
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