Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms [Hardcover]

Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticismsexplores the ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s to the contemporary era.Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticismsexplores the ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s onwards. Although an early form of Celticism disappeared with the demise of the Celtic Revivals of Ireland and Scotland, the 'Celtic world' and the 'Celtic temperament' remained key themes in central texts of Irish and Scottish literature well into the twentieth century. Richard Barlow examines the emergence, development, and transformation of Celticism within Irish and Scottish writing and identifies key connections between modern Irish and Scottish authors and texts.By reading works from figures such as James Macpherson, Walter Scott, Sydney Owenson, Augusta Gregory, W. B. Yeats, Fiona Macleod, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, and Seamus Heaney in their political and cultural contexts, Barlow provides a new account of the characteristics and phases of literary Celticism within Romanticism, Modernism, and beyond.DedicationAbbreviationsIntroduction: Ireland, Scotland, and Celticism1. Ossian and Irish Literature: Owenson, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett2. Gender, Nationality, and Celticism in Gregory and Macleod3. Joyce and Scott: Sex, History, and Celticism4. Scottish Modernism and the Celtic world: MacDiarmid and MacLean5. Heaney, the North, and ScotlandConclusion: Early Celticism / Late CelticismBibliographyIndexRichard Alan Barlow,Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological UniversityRichard Barlow is an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University. His articles have appeared in journals such asIrish Studies Review,James Joyce Quarterly, andScl“1