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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... Ruskin's Stones of Venice and Seven lamps of architecture . These articles , in which Ferguson comments at length on the subject of ecclesiastical architecture , provided a forum for full expansion of the dichotomy between classicism ...
... Ruskin's Stones of Venice and Seven lamps of architecture . These articles , in which Ferguson comments at length on the subject of ecclesiastical architecture , provided a forum for full expansion of the dichotomy between classicism ...
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... Ruskin's apparent alarm at the progress of ' popish ideas ' in England was at best unconvincing , he asserted ... Ruskin ' , and ' no - one not honoured with his personal acquaintance could have supposed him to be the decided Protestant ...
... Ruskin's apparent alarm at the progress of ' popish ideas ' in England was at best unconvincing , he asserted ... Ruskin ' , and ' no - one not honoured with his personal acquaintance could have supposed him to be the decided Protestant ...
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... Ruskin's Gothic credo is consistently derided as mawkish , puerile and misguided in its tendencies towards Rome . Ferguson pursued his attack on Ruskin two years later in his review of the first volume of Stones of Venice . Ruskin , who ...
... Ruskin's Gothic credo is consistently derided as mawkish , puerile and misguided in its tendencies towards Rome . Ferguson pursued his attack on Ruskin two years later in his review of the first volume of Stones of Venice . Ruskin , who ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
Scotland Ulster and the Hibernian nightsentertainments | 29 |
The Irish Minstrelsy review 1834 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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