Advertising, literature, and print culture in Ireland, 1891-1922
By: John Strachan and Claire Nally
Contributors: Nally, Claire, 1979-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780230298736
Subjects: National characteristics in literature; Popular literature; Literature and society; History and criticism; Magazine Advertising; Irish National characteristics; Advertising; History; Consumption (Economics)
Notes: "This book emerges from "Consumer Culture, Advertising, and Literature in Ireland 1848-1921", a Leverhulme Major Research Project ... funded by the Trust between 2008 and 2011 ... a joint venture between the universities of Durham and Sunderland"--P.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Advertising in Ireland 1850-1914. Prologue; title: the Irish advertising scene from the 1850s to the 1880s; Advertising and the nation in the Irish revival; title: Print culture. The Shan van vocht (1896-1899) and The leader (1900-1936): national identity in advertising; The Sinn féin depot and the selling of Irish sport; The lady of the house (1890-1921): gender, fashion and domesticity;  Unionism, advertising, and the Third Home Rule Bill; title: "High" culture. Oscar Wilde as editor and writer: aesthetic interventions in fashion and material culture; Consumerism and anti-commercialism: the Yeatses, print culture, and home industry; Advertising in Ireland 1914-1922; Advertising, Ireland, and the Great War; title: Coda - from the Armistice to the Saorstsst.