Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an
ideology which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish
Revival's celebration of the Irish peasant farmer as the ideal
Irishman to the fierce history of land claim battles between the
Irish and their colonisers, notions of the land have become
particularly bound up with conceptions of what Ireland is and what
it is to be Irish. In this book, Wright considers this fraught
relationship between land and national identity in Irish
literature. In doing so, she presents a new vision of the Irish
national landscape as one that is vitally connected to larger
geographical spheres. By exploring issues of globalisation,
international radicalism, trade routes, and the export of natural
resources, Wright is at the cutting edge of modern global scholarly
trends and concerns. In considering texts from the Romantic era
such as Leslie's Killarney, Edgeworth's ""Limerick Gloves,"" and
Moore's Irish Melodies, Wright undercuts the nationalist myth of a
""people of the soil"" using the very texts which helped to
construct this myth. Reigniting the field of Irish Romanticism,
Wright presents original readings which call into question
politically motivated mythologies while energising nationalist
conceptions that reflect transnational networks and mobility.
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