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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... appears contaminated by bigotry and shaped by a glaring racial primitivism . It reads as a systematic endorsement of a Protestant Ascendancy agenda , or worse , as base sectarianism channelled into a self - conscious and premeditated ...
... appears contaminated by bigotry and shaped by a glaring racial primitivism . It reads as a systematic endorsement of a Protestant Ascendancy agenda , or worse , as base sectarianism channelled into a self - conscious and premeditated ...
Page 146
... appears'.44 This outright condemnation of Ruskin was the basis for Ferguson's review in 1849 of The seven lamps of architecture , Ruskin's treatise on the fundamental prin- ciples of design and construction . Ferguson's objections begin ...
... appears'.44 This outright condemnation of Ruskin was the basis for Ferguson's review in 1849 of The seven lamps of architecture , Ruskin's treatise on the fundamental prin- ciples of design and construction . Ferguson's objections begin ...
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... appears as a personal conviction . The Gothic Revival in Ireland impinged upon his consciousness so that even in the North of Ireland , with its ' Presbyterian taste for the solidly classical ' , evidence of its presence disturbed him ...
... appears as a personal conviction . The Gothic Revival in Ireland impinged upon his consciousness so that even in the North of Ireland , with its ' Presbyterian taste for the solidly classical ' , evidence of its presence disturbed him ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
Scotland Ulster and the Hibernian nightsentertainments | 29 |
The Irish Minstrelsy review 1834 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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