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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... England had already slipped into this vortex , and as his 1849 satire ' Inheritor and Economist ' illustrated , Ferguson agonized over the extension of similar social and economic traits to Ireland , where the transferral of the ...
... England had already slipped into this vortex , and as his 1849 satire ' Inheritor and Economist ' illustrated , Ferguson agonized over the extension of similar social and economic traits to Ireland , where the transferral of the ...
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... England was at best unconvincing , he asserted , while a reading of his works suggested nothing less than that the author had succumbed to the influence of Tractarianism . ' We cannot help remarking ' Ferguson continued , ' that ...
... England was at best unconvincing , he asserted , while a reading of his works suggested nothing less than that the author had succumbed to the influence of Tractarianism . ' We cannot help remarking ' Ferguson continued , ' that ...
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... England since 1880 ( London : Routledge , 1989 ) . ' Middle - class education and employment in the nineteenth century : a critical note ' , Economic History Review 14 ( 1961–2 ) . Phillopson , Nicholas . ' The Scottish Enlightenment ...
... England since 1880 ( London : Routledge , 1989 ) . ' Middle - class education and employment in the nineteenth century : a critical note ' , Economic History Review 14 ( 1961–2 ) . Phillopson , Nicholas . ' The Scottish Enlightenment ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
Scotland Ulster and the Hibernian nightsentertainments | 29 |
The Irish Minstrelsy review 1834 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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