Essays on James Clarence Mangan
Subtitle: the man in the cloak
By: Edited by Sinéad Sturgeon, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781137273376
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Description: "This volume explores the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century, and a crucial influence on WB Yeats and James Joyce. It is the first collection of essays to focus on Mangan, and features articles by leading scholars in the field, including David Lloyd, as well as contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers, Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. The collection expands existing fields of debate - translation, the supernatural, intertexuality, nationalism, romanticism - and introduces new ones: Mangan's afterlife in the English literary canon, cosmopolitanism and Weltliteratur, antiquity and futurity, nineteenth-century spiritualism and magical thinking. 'The Man in the Cloak', one of Mangan's favourite pseudonyms, is still a resonant soubriquet for a writer who has largely eluded critical attention, and this volume restores him to his proper place in European and British, as well as Irish literary history"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsAbbreviationsOn the Tiles with J.C. Mangan; Paul MuldoonIntroduction; Sine;ad Sturgeon1. Unauthorised Mangan; Sean Ryder2. Mangan in England; Matthew Campbell 3. Crossing Over: On Mangan's 'Spirit's Everywhere'; David Lloyd4. 'Fully Able /To Write in Any Language - I'm a Babel': James Clarence Mangan and the Task of the Translator; David Wheatley5. 'Antiquity and Futurity' in the Writings of James Clarence Mangan; Joseph Lennon6. Cosmopolitan Form: Mangan's Anthologies and the Critique of Weltliteratur; Cóilín Parsons7. Night Singer: Mangan Among the Birds; Sine;ad Sturgeon8. 'The last of the bardic poets': Joyce's Multiple Mangans; John McCourt9. '[M]y mind is destroying me': Consciousness, 'Psychological Narrative,' and Supernaturalist Modes in Mangan's Fiction; Richard Haslam10. The Spiritual 'vastation' of James Clarence Mangan: Magic, Technology, and Identity; Anne Jamison11. Shades of Mangan; Ciaran Carson BibliographyIndex.