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This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals
how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience
while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel,
Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from
pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and
crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will: Peruse the
passports of artists and intellectuals, writers and musicians,
ancient messengers and modern migrants. See how these seemingly
humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity,
mobility, citizenship, and state authority. Encounter intimate
stories of vulnerability and desire along with vivid examples drawn
from world cinema, literature, art, philosophy, and politics.
Witness the authority that travel documents exercise over our
movements and our emotions as we circulate around the globe. With
unexpected discoveries at every turn, License to Travel exposes the
passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of
government surveillance powerful enough to define our very
humanity.
This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals
how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience
while helping to define the modern world.  In License
to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey
from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls
and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will:
 Peruse the passports of artists and intellectuals, writers
and musicians, ancient messengers and modern migrants. See
how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger
narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state
authority. Encounter intimate stories of vulnerability and desire
along with vivid examples drawn from world cinema, literature, art,
philosophy, and politics. Witness the authority that travel
documents exercise over our movements and our emotions as we
circulate around the globe. Â With unexpected discoveries at
every turn, License to Travel exposes the passport as
both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government
surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.
Nietzsche and Irish Modernism demonstrates how the ideas of the
controversial German philosopher played a crucial role in the
emergence and evolution of a distinctly Irish brand of modernist
culture. Making an essential new contribution to the history of
modernism, the book traces the circulation of these ideas through
the writings of George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce,
as well as through minor works of literature, magazine articles,
newspaper debates, public lectures, and private correspondence.
These materials reveal a response to Nietzsche that created abiding
tensions between Irish cultural production and reigning religious
and nationalist orthodoxies, during an anxious period of Home Rule
agitation, world war, revolution, civil war, and state building.
With its wealth of detail, the book greatly enriches our
understanding of modernist culture as a site of convergence between
art and politics, indigenous concerns and foreign perspectives. --
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At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized
as "the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of
her time . . . in so far as she let herself be known to the public
at all." An abiding interest in sacred sites and ancient
civilizations took Murphy down the Amazon and over the Andes, into
the jungles of Southeast Asia and onto the deserts of the Middle
East, above the Arctic Circle and behind the Iron Curtain. After
the Second World War, Murphy began publishing a series of vivid,
humorous, and often harrowing accounts of her travels in The
Capuchin Annual, a journal reaching a largely Catholic and
nationalist audience in Ireland and the United States. At home in
the Irish midlands, Murphy may have been a modest and retiring
figure, but her travelogues shuttle between religious devotion and
searching curiosity, primitivist assumptions and probing insights,
gender decorum and bold adventuring. Unaccompanied Traveler, with
its wide-ranging introduction, detailed notes, and eye-catching
maps, retrieves these remarkable accounts from obscurity and
presents them to a new generation of readers interested in travel
and adventure.
Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O’Grady published a three-volume
History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient
past of the Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of
cultural revival and political upheaval. At the heart of this
history was the figure of Cuculain, the great mythic hero who would
inspire a generation of writers and revolutionaries, from W. B.
Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory to Patrick Pearse. Despite the
profound influence O’Grady’s writings had on literary and
political culture in Ireland, they are not as well known as they
should be, particularly in view of the increasingly global interest
in Irish culture. This critical edition of the Cuculain legend
offers a concise, abridged version of the central story in History
of Ireland—the rise of the young warrior, his famous exploits in
the Táin Bó Cualinge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), and his heroic
death. Castle and Bixby’s edition also includes a scholarly
introduction, biography, timeline, glossary, editorial notes, and
critical essays, demonstrating the significance of O’Grady’s
writing for the continued reimagining of Ireland’s past, present,
and future. Inviting a new generation of readers to encounter this
work, the volume provides the tools necessary to appreciate both
O’Grady’s enduring importance as a writer and Cuculain’s
continuing resonance as a cultural icon.
At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized
as "the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of
her time . . . in so far as she let herself be known to the public
at all." An abiding interest in sacred sites and ancient
civilizations took Murphy down the Amazon and over the Andes, into
the jungles of Southeast Asia and onto the deserts of the Middle
East, above the Arctic Circle and behind the Iron Curtain. After
the Second World War, Murphy began publishing a series of vivid,
humorous, and often harrowing accounts of her travels in The
Capuchin Annual, a journal reaching a largely Catholic and
nationalist audience in Ireland and the United States. At home in
the Irish midlands, Murphy may have been a modest and retiring
figure, but her travelogues shuttle between religious devotion and
searching curiosity, primitivist assumptions and probing insights,
gender decorum and bold adventuring. Unaccompanied Traveler, with
its wide-ranging introduction, detailed notes, and eye-catching
maps, retrieves these remarkable accounts from obscurity and
presents them to a new generation of readers interested in travel
and adventure.
Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O'Grady published a three-volume
History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient
past of the Irish people and helped to usher in a new era of
cultural revival and political upheaval. At the heart of this
history was the figure of Cuculain, the great mythic hero who would
inspire a generation of writers and revolutionaries, from W. B.
Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory to Patrick Pearse. Despite the
profound influence O'Grady's writings had on literary and political
culture in Ireland, they are not as well known as they should be,
particularly in view of the increasingly global interest in Irish
culture. This critical edition of the Cuculain legend offers a
concise, abridged version of the central story in History of
Ireland-the rise of the young warrior, his famous exploits in the
Tain Bo Cualinge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), and his heroic death.
Castle and Bixby's edition also includes a scholarly introduction,
biography, timeline, glossary, editorial notes, and critical
essays, demonstrating the significance of O'Grady's writing for the
continued reimagining of Ireland's past, present, and future.
Inviting a new generation of readers to encounter this work, the
volume provides the tools necessary to appreciate both O'Grady's
enduring importance as a writer and Cuculain's continuing resonance
as a cultural icon.
Samuel Beckett has long been seen as a distinctly 'apolitical' and
'ahistorical' writer, but this reputation fails to do him justice.
Placing Beckett's novels in the context of the newly-liberated
Irish Free State, Patrick Bixby explores for the first time their
confrontation with the legacies of both Irish nationalism and
British imperialism. In doing so, he reveals Beckett's fiction as a
remarkable example of how postcolonial writing addresses the
relationships between private consciousness and public life, as
well as those between the novel form and a cultural environment
including not only the literary tradition, but also political
speeches, national monuments, and anthropological studies. With
special attention to these relationships, the study demonstrates
Beckett's challenge to familiar narratives of personal identity and
communal belonging, which makes his writing integral to
understanding the history of the novel and the fate of modernism,
in addition to the emergence of postcolonial literature.
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