The Joyce Country: Literary Scholarship and Irish Culture

A new collection from Eavan Boland, a pioneering figure in Irish poetry who has been credited with inspiring a generation. This will be her final collection, following her passing in April 2020.

An innovative exploration of eighteenth-century Irish literature, this volume showcases the diversity of texts, authors, and approaches characterizing contemporary studies. It will appeal to scholars and students of the period as well as to readers interested in questions of gender, sexuality, national identity, and trans-national identity.

This is among the very first collections for graduates and researchers to track Irish and Northern Irish writing across the twentieth century's long turn, and the remarkable transitions that accompanied it. It revisits major writers and texts, providing path-making accounts of emergent figures through a range of perspectives.