Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-century IrelandSamuel Ferguson (1810-86) was one of 19th-century Ireland'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. Ferguson's guiding agenda is shown to be that of a civic idealism - 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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Page 111
... Davis as an able scholar and ' a gentleman ' , for help.36 Cultural and journalistic interests aside , central to Ferguson's identification with the Young Ireland ideologue was the policy engendered by Davis to redeem the Repeal ...
... Davis as an able scholar and ' a gentleman ' , for help.36 Cultural and journalistic interests aside , central to Ferguson's identification with the Young Ireland ideologue was the policy engendered by Davis to redeem the Repeal ...
Page 112
... Davis was ' a Protestant only in culture ' his biographer Richard Davis highlights his attractiveness to Ferguson , who sought stability in the notion of a civil hege- mony or a cultural ascendancy bulwarked by religious traditions but ...
... Davis was ' a Protestant only in culture ' his biographer Richard Davis highlights his attractiveness to Ferguson , who sought stability in the notion of a civil hege- mony or a cultural ascendancy bulwarked by religious traditions but ...
Page 115
... Davis must take into account the fact that he was writing within the established boundaries of this tradition . Even so , the essay on Davis elucidates the definitive criteria for what may be taken as Ferguson's national , Protestant ...
... Davis must take into account the fact that he was writing within the established boundaries of this tradition . Even so , the essay on Davis elucidates the definitive criteria for what may be taken as Ferguson's national , Protestant ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
Scotland Ulster and the Hibernian nightsentertainments | 29 |
The Irish Minstrelsy review 1834 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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