Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Exploring the effects of travelling, migration, and other forms of cultural contact, particularly within Europe, this edited collection explores the act of traveling and the representation of traveling by Irish men and women from diverse walks of life in the period between Grattan’s Parliament (1782) and World War I (1914). This was a period marked by an increasing physical and cultural mobility of Irish throughout Britain, Continental Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific. Travel was undertaken for a variety of reasons: during the Romantic period, the ‘Grand Tour’ and what is now sometimes referred to as medical tourism brought Irish artists and intellectuals to Europe, where cultural exchanges with other writers, artists, and thinkers inspired them to introduce novel ideas and cultural forms to their Irish audiences. Showing this impact of the nineteenth-century Irish across national borders and their engagement with global cultural and linguistic traditions, the volume will provide novel insights into the transcultural spheres of the arts, literature, politics, and translation in which they were active. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Travel Literature and Traveling Irishness: An Italian Case Study....Pages 15-33 Mabel Sharman Crawford’s Life in Tuscany: Ulster Radicalism in a Hot Climate....Pages 35-50 On the Specificity of Irish Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Maria Frances Dickson’s Journeys to the Continent and Kilkee....Pages 51-77 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 William Orpen (1878–1931): A Voice for Pluralism in the Long Nineteenth Century....Pages 81-102 Traveling Cabins: The Popularity of Irish Local-Color Fiction in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe....Pages 103-118 Traveling Irishness and the Transnational James Connolly....Pages 119-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 He Should Go to the Théâtre François: Paris, the Theater, and Maria Edgeworth’s Ormond ....Pages 141-162 Getting Back to Ireland: Charles Lever’s Soldiers of Fortune, Tourists, and Irishmen in Reverse ....Pages 163-181 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Irish Gothic Goes Abroad: Cultural Migration, Materiality, and the Minerva Press....Pages 185-203 Reading the Fenian Romance: Irish-American and Irish-Canadian Versions of the National Tale ....Pages 205-223 A Cork Scribe in Victorian London....Pages 225-245 Back Matter....Pages 247-258