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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... island underfoot , floating a thousand feet above the middle of Country Antrim , for from that point neither base nor side can be seen , but all around , from Louth upon the south , to the hills of the Causeway upon the north , and from ...
... island underfoot , floating a thousand feet above the middle of Country Antrim , for from that point neither base nor side can be seen , but all around , from Louth upon the south , to the hills of the Causeway upon the north , and from ...
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... island belonged exclusively to the Tories . The Dublin University Magazine was read throughout the two islands , but it was more vehemently anti- national than the Times : 24 Retrieving this viable and potentially explosive prop- erty ...
... island belonged exclusively to the Tories . The Dublin University Magazine was read throughout the two islands , but it was more vehemently anti- national than the Times : 24 Retrieving this viable and potentially explosive prop- erty ...
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... island – provided points of connection to the broad , sustaining culture of the Victorian city ; the resistant and quintessentially sociable polis of the civic ideal . Repeatedly , Ferguson's emphasis was on the elevation of the Irish ...
... island – provided points of connection to the broad , sustaining culture of the Victorian city ; the resistant and quintessentially sociable polis of the civic ideal . Repeatedly , Ferguson's emphasis was on the elevation of the Irish ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
Scotland Ulster and the Hibernian nightsentertainments | 29 |
The Irish Minstrelsy review 1834 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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