Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture

✍ Scribed by Eoghan Smith, Simon Workman

Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 355
Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Irish suburbia have received relatively little scholarly consideration and this multidisciplinary volume redresses this critical deficit. It significantly advances the nascent socio-historical field of Irish suburban studies, while simultaneously disclosing and establishing a history of suburban Irish literary and visual culture. The essays also challenge conventional conceptions of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing and art and reveal that, though Irish suburban experience is often conceived of pejoratively by writers and artists, there are also many who register and valorise the imaginative possibilities of Irish suburbia and the meanings of its social and cultural life.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
Introduction (Eoghan Smith, Simon Workman)....Pages 1-7
Brave New Worlds? 150 Years of Irish Suburban Evolution (Ruth McManus)....Pages 9-37
The Irish Suburban Imaginary (Mary P. Corcoran)....Pages 39-56
Dublin and Its Suburbs: The Sum of Its Parts? (Michael Cronin)....Pages 57-75
Suburbia in Irish Literary and Visual Culture (Eoghan Smith, Simon Workman)....Pages 77-95
A Severed Space: The Suburbs of South Dublin in Contemporary Irish Fiction (Liam Lanigan)....Pages 97-118
Shame, Blame, and Change: Suburban Life in Irish Women’s Fiction (Theresa Wray)....Pages 119-138
Suburbia and Irish Poetry (Catherine Kilcoyne)....Pages 139-162
Suburban Sensibilities in Contemporary Plays Set in Dublin (Eamonn Jordan)....Pages 163-189
Behind Closed Doors: Middle-Class Suburbia and Contemporary Irish Cinema (Ruth Barton)....Pages 191-208
‘And This Is Where My Anxiety Manifested Itself…’: Gothic Suburbia in Contemporary Irish Art (Tracy Fahey)....Pages 209-225
The Sounds of the Suburbs? Experiences and Imaginings of Popular Music in Dublin (John O’Flynn)....Pages 227-248
The Narrow Margins: Photography and the Terrain Vague (Justin Carville)....Pages 249-273
SOUTHERN CROSS: Documentary Photography, the Celtic Tiger and a Future yet to Come (Mark Curran)....Pages 275-299
A Landscape of Crisis: Photographing Post-Celtic Tiger Ghost Estates (Anthony Haughey)....Pages 301-321
Back Matter ....Pages 323-342

✦ Subjects

Literature; British and Irish Literature; Contemporary Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature

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