William Carleton : The Authentic Voice
by Brand, Gordon; Craig, SamFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-12-21
Publisher(s): Colin Smythe Ltd
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Summary
"This volume also contains contemporary portraits of Carleton, reproduces previously unpublished letters and documents, a chronology, publication history of his writings, provides fine line illustrations by Sam Craig and detailed maps of the countryside he loved and wrote about, so this is an indispensable book for everyone interested in Carleton and pre-famine Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of Contents
| Illustrations | p. xi |
| The Carleton Society | p. xiii |
| Patrons and Committee of the William Carleton Summer School 2005 | p. xv |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xix |
| Chronology | p. xxi |
| Maps of Carleton's Clogher Valley | p. xxxi |
| First publication of the sketches and short stories | p. xxxvii |
| First publication of the novels | p. xlv |
| Historical Perspectives, including Letters, Articles, and Opinions | p. 1 |
| The Peel Memorandum (1826) | p. 3 |
| Carleton's Preface to the First Edition of Traits and Stories (1830) | p. 9 |
| Samuel Ferguson on Caesar Otway (1839) | p. 13 |
| Caesar Otway on William Carleton (1841) | p. 17 |
| The Government Pension (1847) | p. 29 |
| A Letter from Joseph Brenan (1848) | p. 33 |
| A Selection of Letters (1834-1866) | p. 35 |
| Two Important Opinions (1845 and 1896) | p. 73 |
| Letter from W.B. Yeats to The Nation (1890) | p. 77 |
| 'Otway's Magic Mountain' | p. 80 |
| 'Tribute to William Carleton' | p. 87 |
| Selected Papers delivered to The William Carleton Summer School, 1992 to 2005 | p. 95 |
| Carleton's "Fiery Shorthand" | p. 97 |
| Carleton's Clogher | p. 108 |
| First Landscape, First Death | p. 125 |
| William Carleton: The Plain Person's Guide | p. 128 |
| Carleton's Embattled Place in Irish Literature | p. 151 |
| Extract from Station Island | p. 163 |
| Carleton and Lough Derg | p. 166 |
| Carleton and Violence | p. 184 |
| Confronting Famine: Carleton's Peasantry | p. 198 |
| Carleton's Ulster Catholics | p. 223 |
| William Carleton: Protestants and Protestantism | p. 234 |
| William Carleton: Language and Vitality | p. 251 |
| Genealogical Formulas and Carleton's Fiction | p. 269 |
| William Carleton and the Psuedo-Patriots of Ireland | p. 287 |
| Fardorougha the Miser | p. 308 |
| Carleton in the 1840s | p. 318 |
| William Carleton and the "Big House" | p. 334 |
| "A Melancholy Task": Carleton's Autobiography | p. 347 |
| William Carleton and Samuel Ferguson: Lives and Contacts | p. 360 |
| "Square-built Power": Yeats, Carleton and the Irish Nineteenth Century | p. 378 |
| Carleton, John Hewitt and Regionalism | p. 393 |
| Afterword | p. 411 |
| Contributors | p. 445 |
| Index | p. 449 |
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