Book contents
- A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
- A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction Culture, Climate, Capital, and Contagion
- Chapter 1 Landscape and Literature in Medieval Ireland
- Chapter 2 The Irish Annals and Climate, Fifth–Seventeenth Centuries CE
- Chapter 3 The Environmental Vocabulary of Irish Folklore
- Chapter 4 Narratives of Arboreal Landscapes
- Chapter 5 Famine and Ecology, 1750–1900
- Chapter 6 Political Ecology in Nationalist Literature, 1880–1922
- Chapter 7 Solastalgic Modernism and the West in Irish Literature, 1900–1950
- Chapter 8 The Ecology of the Irish Big House, 1900–1950
- Chapter 9 Refuge and Domestic Space in Northern Irish Poetry, ca. 1940–Present
- Chapter 10 Irish Travellers, the Environment, and Literature
- Chapter 11 The Oceanic Imaginaries of Modern Irish Writing
- Chapter 12 Landscape in Irish-Language Literature: Poetry and Prose, 1900–2000
- Chapter 13 Poetry and Place
- Chapter 14 Animals and Climate Crisis in Irish Poetry
- Chapter 15 Animals and Animality in Irish Fiction
- Chapter 16 The Political Ecology of Food and Hunger, 1950–Present
- Chapter 17 Built Environments and Lived Ecologies in Contemporary Irish Poetry, 1998–Present
- Chapter 18 Transnationalism and Environment in Contemporary Irish Literature
- Chapter 19 Energy Futures in Contemporary Irish Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction - Culture, Climate, Capital, and Contagion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2022
- A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
- A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction Culture, Climate, Capital, and Contagion
- Chapter 1 Landscape and Literature in Medieval Ireland
- Chapter 2 The Irish Annals and Climate, Fifth–Seventeenth Centuries CE
- Chapter 3 The Environmental Vocabulary of Irish Folklore
- Chapter 4 Narratives of Arboreal Landscapes
- Chapter 5 Famine and Ecology, 1750–1900
- Chapter 6 Political Ecology in Nationalist Literature, 1880–1922
- Chapter 7 Solastalgic Modernism and the West in Irish Literature, 1900–1950
- Chapter 8 The Ecology of the Irish Big House, 1900–1950
- Chapter 9 Refuge and Domestic Space in Northern Irish Poetry, ca. 1940–Present
- Chapter 10 Irish Travellers, the Environment, and Literature
- Chapter 11 The Oceanic Imaginaries of Modern Irish Writing
- Chapter 12 Landscape in Irish-Language Literature: Poetry and Prose, 1900–2000
- Chapter 13 Poetry and Place
- Chapter 14 Animals and Climate Crisis in Irish Poetry
- Chapter 15 Animals and Animality in Irish Fiction
- Chapter 16 The Political Ecology of Food and Hunger, 1950–Present
- Chapter 17 Built Environments and Lived Ecologies in Contemporary Irish Poetry, 1998–Present
- Chapter 18 Transnationalism and Environment in Contemporary Irish Literature
- Chapter 19 Energy Futures in Contemporary Irish Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter provides a broad survey of the field of Irish literature and the environment, and challenges some of the ways in which the subject has been broached thus far. It argues that the exponential effects of the climate crisis are now being felt across the world in a manner that demands urgent critical intervention and innovation. How is Irish Studies reacting to the momentous ontological and epistemological crises ushered in by the Anthropocene epoch? As the chapters of this survey indicate, scholars working in the field of Irish Studies are increasingly using interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary tools to analyze Irish culture’s relationship to the environment. The chapter goes on to summarize the contents and contexts of the contributions to this volume.
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- A History of Irish Literature and the Environment , pp. 1 - 32Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022