This is the first comprehensive study of the Irish writers of the
Victorian age, some of them still remembered, most of them now
forgotten. Their work was often directed to a British as well as an
Irish reading audience and was therefore disparaged in the era of
W.B. Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival with its culturally
nationalist agenda. This study is based on a reading of around 370
novels by 150 authors, including still-familiar novelists such as
William Carleton, the peasant writer who wielded much influence,
and Charles Lever, whose serious work was destroyed by the slur of
'rollicking', as well as Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, George Moore,
Emily Lawless, Somerville and Ross, Bram Stoker, and three of the
leading authors from the new-woman movement, Sarah Grand, Iota, and
George Egerton. James H. Murphy examines the work of these and many
other writers in a variety of contexts: the political, economic,
and cultural developments of the time; the vicissitudes of the
reading audience; the realities of a publishing industry that was
for the most part London-based; the often difficult circumstances
of the lives of the novelists; and the ever changing genre of the
novel itself, to which Irish authors often made a contribution.
Politics, history, religion, gender and, particularly, land, over
which nineteenth-century Ireland was deeply divided, featured as
key themes for fiction. Finally, the book engages with the critical
debate of recent times concerning the supposed failure of realism
in the nineteenth-century Irish novel, looking for more specific
causes than have hitherto been offered and discovering occasions on
which realism turned out to be possible.
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