Animals in Irish literature and culture
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Animals in Irish literature and culture
(Palgrave studies in animals and literature)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, c2015
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First published 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan
First softcover print. 2018
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262) and index
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Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, 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.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Forward
- Margo DeMello Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction
- Kathryn Kirkpatrick PART I: HUNTING AND CONSUMING ANIMALS 1. 'Our sep'rate Natures are the same': Reading Blood Sports in Irish Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century'
- Lucy Collins 2. Quick Red Foxes: Irish Women Write the Hunt
- Kathryn Kirkpatrick 3. Dennis O'Driscoll's Beef with the Celtic Tiger
- Amanda Sperry 4. Porcine Pasts and Bourgeois Pigs: Consumption and the Irish Counterculture
- Sarah Townsend PART II: GENDER AND ANIMALS 5. 'Their disembodied voices cry': Marine Animals and Their Songs of Absence in the Poetry of Sinead Morrissey, Caitriona O'Reilly and Mary O'Donoghue
- Katarzyna Poloczek 6. Hares and Hags: Becoming Animal in Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's Dun na mBan tri Thine
- Sarah O'Connor 7. 'Even the animals in the fields': Animals, Queers, and Violence
- Ed Madden 8. 'A pedigree bitch, like myself': (Non)Human Illness and Death in Dorothy Molloy's Poetry
- Luz Mar Gonzalez-Arias PART III: CHALLENGING HABITS 9. Impersonating Authority: Animals and the Anglo-Irish Social Order in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui and Edmund Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale
- Andrew Smyth 10. 'Do You Dance, Minnaloushe?' Yeats's Animal Questions
- Liam Young 11. Room for Creatures: Frances Harvey's Bestiary
- Donna Potts 12. 'A capacity for sustained flight': Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Ecology of Avian Encounter
- Christine Cusick PART IV: UNSETTLING ANIMALS 13. Mad Dogs and Irishmen: Dogs, Dracula, and the Colonial Irish Other
- Jeanne Dubino 14. The Celtic Tiger's Equine Imaginary
- Maria Pramaggiore 15. Transnational - Transanimal: Reading the Insect in Irish Migrant Poetry
- Borbala Farago 16. Strange Becomings: Paul Muldoon's Maggot
- Tom Herron Selected Bibliography Index
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