The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
By (Author) Maud Ellmann
Edited by Sin White
Edited by Vicki Mahaffey
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press
8th August 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary reference works
History: specific events and topics
820.911209415
Physical Properties
Paperback
504
Width 172mm, Height 244mm
Description
The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the Catholic Church that was gathering momentum in the same period. In religion as in culture, resistance to orthodoxy has persisted, and for this reason this companion explores modernist heresies cultural, aesthetic, critical, epistemological that stretch back to the late nineteenth-century and forward to present day. Contributors widen the temporal, conceptual, generic, and geographical definitions of Irish modernism by investigating crosscurrents between literary form and cultural transformation through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book enriches the canon of Irish modernism by recovering lesser-known works by both neglected and canonical writers, especially women poets and novelists.
