Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-century IrelandSamuel Ferguson (1810-86) was one of 19th-century Irelandâ??s most influential writers, but his politics and cultural agenda have never been fully understood. This book draws on his neglected prose writings to illuminate his layered ideology, and to expose his various determining contexts, including his native Belfast and its Scottish Enlightenment hinterland, the Dublin University Magazine with its fraught literary-political protocol, the communities of the Ordnance Survey Commission, the Nation, and the Royal Irish Academy. Fergusonâ??s guiding agenda is shown to be that of a civic idealism â?? a grassroots alternative to polarized political trajectories and a compelling ethos for a conflicted Irish Protestantism. The result is both a portrait of an individual in his time and a detailed engagement with Irish cultural politics from the Union to the Revival. |
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
Scotland Ulster and the Hibernian nights entertainments | 29 |
The Irish Minstrelsy review 1834 | 52 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-century Ireland Volume 39 of Irish literary studies |
| Authors | Department of English Eve Patten, Eve Patten |
| Publisher | Four Courts, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 1851828516, 9781851828517 |
| Length | 207 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General |
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