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Ireland and Scotland
Literature and Culture, State and Nation, 1966-2000
Ray Ryan
344 pages
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214x134mm
978-0-19-818776-9
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Hardback
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07 February 2002
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- The first comparative study of Irish and Scottish culture.
While political connections between Ireland and Scotland have been vigorously promoted in recent years, Ray Ryan presents the first sustained, comparative study of literature and culture from both sites. Ryan's focus is on the Irish state and the Scottish nation. How does literature from the Republic create the cultural shape and personality of the Irish state? Through comparison with Scotland, a stateless nation, Ryan argues that crucial themes in Irish culture emerge with new force and clarity: themes such as Republicanism and colonialism, the city and rural divide, and the partition of
the island into separate 'southern' and 'northern' spheres. Analysing a broad range of Irish and Scottish literary texts, Ryan shifts attention from the traditionally defined canon of Irish culture, and establishes the relevance of Scotland for any future discussion of Irish cultural contexts. Offering a radical intervention across a range of disciplines, this book is essential reading for all those working on Ireland, on Scotland, and on contemporary English and British culture.
Readership: Specialists in Irish and Scottish studies and twentieth-century literature; historians and political scientists with an interest in cultural matters.
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Ray Ryan, Commissioning Editor, English and American Literature, Cambridge University Press
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"... as a well-written, insightful book full of interesting ideas, Ireland and Scotland will certainly be of value to scholars of Irish writing." - Irish Studies Review "Ireland and Scotland raises a number of important issues, but Ryan's focus on the state is particularly valuable, allowing him to make many enlightening points about contemporary Irish life." - Irish Studies Review "... proffers a nuanced reading of archipelagic affinity and difference and is a landmark monograph in terms of the current development of Irish-Scottish research." - "New Affinities", Irish Review "It is most salutary to see a whole new generation of writers being granted centre stage in a
literary debate dominated for so many decades by the spectres of Joyce, Yeats and Beckett ... this book is to be highly recommended." - Richard Kearney, Irish Times "The author succeeds in turning academic argument into a very lively business ... The argument is robust, lucid, erudite and challenging. The comparative study of Irish and Scottish writers is most welcome." - Richard Kearney, Irish Times "This is an excellent book about Ireland which says some astute things about Scotland along the way." - Donny O'Rourke, The Scotsman "This is a lucid account of our various physical and metaphysical to-ings and fro-ings ... important survey." - Donny O'Rourke, The Scotsman
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Acknowledgements
IntroductionThe Republic of Ireland and Scotland: What Difference Does it Make?
I. Scotland: Region and Nation, Republicanism and Colonialism;1: The Contours of Republicanism: William McIlvanney and the Geography of Difference
2: Being in Between: Iain Crichton Smith and Scottish Colonial History
II. Ireland: Region, State, and Nation;3: The Republic and Ireland: Dermot Bolger, 'Bolgerism', and Dublin
4: Between the Falls Road and Kildare Street: Thomas McCarthy and the Location of Memory
5: Colm Tóibín, Partition, and the Ends of History
Conclusion
Index
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