{"product_id":"nature-and-the-environment-in-nineteenth-century-ireland-9781789620320","title":"Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe environmental humanities are one of the most exciting and rapidly expanding areas of interdisciplinary study, and this collection of essays is a pioneering attempt to apply these approaches to the study of nineteenth-century Ireland. By bringing together historians, geographers and literary scholars, new insights are offered into familiar subjects and unfamiliar subjects are brought out into the light. Essays re-considering O’Connellism, Lord Palmerston and Isaac Butt rub shoulders with examinations of agricultural improvement, Dublin’s animal  geographies and Ireland’s healing places. Literary writers like Emily Lawless and Seumas O’Sullivan are looked at anew, encouraging us to re-think Darwinian influences in Ireland and the history of the Irish literary revival, and transnational perspectives are brought to bear on Ireland’s national park history and the dynamics of Irish natural history.  Much modern Irish history is concerned with access to natural resources, whether this reflects the catastrophic effect of the Great Famine or the conflicts associated with agrarian politics, but historical and literary analyses are rarely  framed explicitly in these terms. The collection responds to the ‘material turn’ in the humanities and contemporary concern about the environment  by re-imagining Ireland’s nineteenth century in fresh and original ways. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of contributors: Matthew Kelly, Helen O’Connell, David Brown, Colin W. Reid, Huston Gilmore, Ronan Foley, Juliana Adelman, Mary Orr, Patrick Maume and Seán Hewitt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews ‘A valuable and timely collection.'\u003cbr\u003ePaul Warde, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e'The originality and the excellence of this book reside precisely in the diversity of the fields investigated by the contributors who, in their individual areas of research, show how nineteenth-century Irish history and literature can be reassessed and better understood when the issue of the environment becomes the central critical focus.'\u003cbr\u003eMarie Mianowski, \u003ci\u003eEstudios Irlandeses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Overall, this coherent volume demonstrates how Irish environmental humanities continues to cultivate unique and complementary scholarship.’ \u003cbr\u003e Justin Dolan Stover, \u003cem\u003e Irish Historical Studies \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Matthew Kelly has done an admirable job both in selecting high-quality essays and in assembling them into a coherent structure. His engaging introduction performs some heavy lifting, deftly summarizingecocritical theory and Irish environmental history scholarship... Victorianists looking for an overview of Irish environmental scholarship, Kelly’s introduction will prove an invaluable read.'  \u003cbr\u003e Siobhan Carroll,\u003ci\u003e Victorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Kelly\u003cbr\u003e1. The Nature of Improvement in Ireland\u003cbr\u003eHelen O’Connell\u003cbr\u003e2. Palmerston’s Conquest of Sligo\u003cbr\u003eDavid Brown\u003cbr\u003e3. ‘A Voice for Ireland’: Isaac Butt, Environmental Justice and the Dilemmas of the Irish Land Question\u003cbr\u003eColin W. Reid \u003cbr\u003e4. ‘In the Open Country’: Nature and the Environment During the ‘Monster’ Meeting Campaign of 1843\u003cbr\u003eHuston Gilmore      \u003cbr\u003e5. Therapeutic Environments in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Hybrid Spaces and Practices \u003cbr\u003eRonan Foley\u003cbr\u003e6. On Why the UK’s First National Park Might Have Been in Ireland\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Kelly\u003cbr\u003e7. Towards an Environmental History of Nineteenth-Century Dublin\u003cbr\u003eJulianna Adelman\u003cbr\u003e8. Mainstream or Tributary? The Question of ‘Hibernian’ Fishes in William Thompson's \u003ci\u003eThe Natural History of Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e (1856)\u003cbr\u003eMary Orr\u003cbr\u003e9. The Ocean of Truth: Atlantic Imagery in Emily Lawless’s \u003ci\u003eMajor Lawrence FLS\u003c\/i\u003e (1885) and \u003ci\u003eGrania: The Story of an Island\u003c\/i\u003e (1892)\u003cbr\u003ePatrick Maume\u003cbr\u003e10. Seumas O’Sullivan and Revivalist Nature Poetry\u003cbr\u003eSeán Hewitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360126894423,"sku":"9781789620320","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789620320.jpg?v=1754126746","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nature-and-the-environment-in-nineteenth-century-ireland-9781789620320","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}