Fictions of the Irish Land War

Heidi Hansson is Professor of English Literature at Umeå University, Sweden. Her publications include Emily Lawless 1845-1913: Writing the Interspace (2007) and the edited volume Irish Nineteenth-Century Women’s Prose: New Contexts and Readings (2008).James H. Murphy is Professor of English at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. He is the author of Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland during the Reign of Queen Victoria (2001), Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age (2011) and Ireland’s Czar: Gladstonian Government and the Lord Lieutenancies of the Red Earl Spencer, 1868-1886 (2014). He also edited The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume 4: The Irish Book in English, 1800-91 (2011).

• Contents: James H. Murphy/Heidi Hansson: The Irish Land War and its Fictions – Whitney Standlee: The ‘Personal Element’ and Emily Lawless’s Hurrish (1886) – Derek Hand: George Moore’s A Drama in Muslin: Art and the Middle-Classes – Faith Binckes/Kathryn Laing: ‘Rival Attractions of the Season’: Land-War Fiction, Christmas Annuals, and the Early Writing of Hannah Lynch – Julie Anne Stevens: The Irish Land War and Children’s Literature: Padraic Colum’s A Boy in Eirinn (1913) illustrated by Jack B. Yeats – Heidi Hansson: More than an Irish Problem: Authority and Universality in Land-War Writing – Anna Pilz: ‘All Possessors of Property Tremble’: Constructions of Landlord-Tenant Relations in Lady Gregory’s Writings – Carla King: The Making of a Thoughtful Agitator: A Glimpse at Michael Davitt’s Books – James H. Murphy: Mary Anne Sadlier on the Land War – Heidi Hansson/James H. Murphy: Introduction to Rosa Mulholland, Our Boycotting: A Miniature Comedy – Rosa Mulholland: Our Boycotting: A Miniature Comedy – Bibliography of Land-War Fiction 1879-1916.