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J. M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival (Hardcover)
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J. M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival (Hardcover)
Series: Irish Studies
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Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer
John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country,
documenting his travels intermittently for ten years. His body of
travel writing includes the travel book The Aran Islands, his
literary journalism about West Kerry and Wicklow published in
various periodicals, and his articles for the Manchester Guardian
about rural poverty in Connemara and Mayo. Although Synge's
nonfiction is often considered of minor weight compared with his
drama, Bruna argues persuasively that his travel narratives are
instances of a pioneering ethnographic and journalistic
imagination. J. M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival is
the first comprehensive study of Synge's travel writing about
Ireland, compiled during the zeitgeist of the preindependence
Revival movement. Bruna argues that Synge's nonfiction subverts
inherited modes of travel writing that put an emphasis on Empire
and Nation. Synge's writing challenges these grand narratives by
expressing a more complex idea of Irishness grounded in his
empathetic observation of the local rural communities he traveled
amongst. Drawing from critically neglected revivalist travel
literature, newspapers and periodicals, and visual and archival
documents, Bruna sketches a new portrait of a seminal Irish
Literary Renaissance figure and sheds new light on the itineraries
of activism and literary engagement of the broader Revival
movement.
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