Publisher:
Bucknell University Press, Blue Ridge Summit
This collection of essays honors Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions and subjects...
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This collection of essays honors Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions and subjects to which he has made enduring contributions through his academic leadership. Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Knowledge both of Books and Humankind -- Part I: SCHOLARSHIP AND ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP -- Chapter One: Chris Fox-The Man Who Reimagined Irish Studies -- Chapter Two: "Casting and Gathering" -- Part II: MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN IRISH EPIC AND VERSE -- Chapter Three: The Erasure of a Warrior's Body -- Chapter Four: Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn's Poem for Cormac O'Hara -- Part III: THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY UNSUBSTANTIAL SELF REDUX -- Chapter Five: Self as Consciousness, Self as Sui Generis -- Part IV: ESCHATOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL JUDGMENT IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES -- Chapter Six: Shipwreck with Spectators -- Chapter Seven: Pope's Anthropogenic Dunciad -- Part V: JONATHAN SWIFT'S RELATIONS-WITH PATIENTS, WITH NEIGHBORS -- Chapter Eight: Swift's "Careful" Nurse and Sick Relations -- Chapter Nine: Swift's Neighbours -- Part VI: LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REACTIONARY THOUGHT AND REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT -- Chapter Ten: Jonathan Swift, "Dangerous Authors," and the Irish Patriot Tradition -- Chapter Eleven: "A Vulgar Bourgeois Through and Through" -- Part VII: THE EASTER RISING ON STAGE AND SCREEN -- Chapter Twelve: Merely Players -- Chapter Thirteen: Screening the 1916 Rebellion -- Part VIII: PERSISTENCE AND MUTABILITY IN STORYTELLING AND LANGUAGE -- Chapter Fourteen: Fame and Popular Culture -- Chapter Fifteen: On Language Change and Social Class in the Novel -- Part IX: IRISH FICTION -- Chapter Sixteen: The Glasson County Accident -- Select Bibliography of the Works of Christopher Fox -- Index -- About the Contributors.
