Irish Romanticism, Rhetoric, and Writing

Jim Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Exeter. He has published widely in the field of Irish Romanticism, including previous books Charles Maturin: Authorship, Authenticity, and the Nation (2011) and Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations, and Scenes of Cultural Production (2011).

• 1. Introduction: figures and feelings in Irish romanticism; 2. 'The spell of sweet persuasion': Sydney Owenson on eloquence and the nation; 3. 'The manner of being': edgeworth, rhetoric, and realism; 4. 'Irish oratory and scotch reviewing': persuasion and conviction in post-napoleonic Britain; 5. The beggar at the door: Thomas Moore and the tone of Irish Romanticism; 6. 'The pollution of my own cathedral': the revelations of Charles Robert Maturin; 7. 'The great, the good, the eloquent, the Irish, the Catholic O'Connell': the Banim brothers and literature in the decade of emancipation; 8. Conclusion: 'clouds of sublimated nonsense'; Irish eloquence during/after history; 9. Bibliography.