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 47
... wild and ruthless he is possessed of a ' natural piety ' , a phrase which Ferguson was to scatter through his 1834 discussion of Irish society in the Hardiman review.47 Through Virgil's perceptions of this tendency in the chieftain ...
... wild and ruthless he is possessed of a ' natural piety ' , a phrase which Ferguson was to scatter through his 1834 discussion of Irish society in the Hardiman review.47 Through Virgil's perceptions of this tendency in the chieftain ...
Page 84
... wild into another ; harbours open their wide - spread arms to shelter the distressed merchantman where formerly an inhospitable coast presented its ironbound front to the breakers of a tempestuous sea . We are exercising a new industry ...
... wild into another ; harbours open their wide - spread arms to shelter the distressed merchantman where formerly an inhospitable coast presented its ironbound front to the breakers of a tempestuous sea . We are exercising a new industry ...
Page 87
... wild nature - really , however , desired the illusion of remote landscape recently touched only by the hand of time.'25 The affectations satirized by Edgeworth in her fiction of Irish fashionable life had become by the early nineteenth ...
... wild nature - really , however , desired the illusion of remote landscape recently touched only by the hand of time.'25 The affectations satirized by Edgeworth in her fiction of Irish fashionable life had become by the early nineteenth ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
Scotland Ulster and the Hibernian nightsentertainments | 29 |
The Irish Minstrelsy review 1834 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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