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Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873-1922
James H. Murphy
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Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873-1922

James H. Murphy James H. Murphy

February 1997

Praeger

Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature

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Explores the outlook of certain important classes in late 19th- and early 20th-century Ireland through an assessment of Irish Catholic fiction.

The late 19th and early 20th century was a key period of cultural transition in Ireland. Fiction was used in a plainly partisan or polemical fashion to advance changes in Irish society. Murphy explores the outlook of certain important social classes during this time frame through an assessment of Irish Catholic fiction. This highly original study provides a new context for understanding the works of canonical authors such as Joyce and George Moore by discussing them in light of the now almost forgotten writing from which they emerged—the several hundred novels that were written during the period, many of them by women writers.
Introduction
Upper-Middle-Class Fiction, 1873-1890
The Search for Respectability
Victorian Virtues
Social Conflict and Economic Reality
Versions of Catholicism
Transition, 1890-1900
Intelligentsia Fiction, 1900-1922
Catholic Ireland and Kickham's Knocknagow
Opportunities for Changing Society
Portrait of Catholic Ireland
Sources of Renewal
Guinan and Sheehan
New Irelands
Metaphors of Identity
Discourse and Defeat
Bibliography
Index
Endorsements
The symbiotic nature of the relationship between literature and history in Ireland has provided James H. Murphy with a wonderful opportunity of which he has taken full advantage. In this volume he has presented us with a perceptive analysis of how literature and the social structure integrate to produce a Catholic fiction that allows for special insight into the Irish historical process between 1872 and 1922, and the result is a most innovative and creative effort in rendering art as evidence.—Emmet Larkin^LProfessor of British and Irish History^LThe University of Chicago





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