9781846820656

Land and landscape in nineteenth-century Ireland.

Ed. by Una Ni Bhroimeil and Glenn Hooper.

Four Courts Press

2008

198 pages

$70.00

Hardcover

DA950

Contributors from the fields of literature,

history, archeology and art history give different perspectives on how the land and landscape of Ireland was perceived during the tumultuous nineteenth century. The editors Ni Bhroimeil (history, University of Limerick) and Hooper (English, University of Aberdeen) tie the disparate essays together with the belief that Irish topography is both imagined and interpreted by all who interact with it. Therefore, the views of fiction authors are as valid as those of historians. Apart from the use of landscape in fiction, articles discuss land reform, tourism, monuments, landscaper painting, copper mining, and the Irish asylum. Distributed in the US by ISBS

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