CONTENTS: Preface [5]; Tadhg Foley and
Seán Ryder, Introduction [7]. PART I: IDEOLOGY, ART AND REPRESENTATION,
Terry Eagleton, ‘Prout and Plagiarism’ [I3]; Luke Gibbons, ‘Between Captain Rock and a Hard Place: Art and Agrarian Insurgency’
[23]; Willa Murphy, ‘Maria Edgeworth and the Aesthetics of Secrecy’
[45]; Judith Hill, ‘Ideology and Cultural Production: Nationalism
and the Public Monument in Mid Nineteenth-Century Ireland’ [55];
Sandra F Siegel, ‘OscarWilde’s Gift and Oxford’s “Coarse
Impertinence”’ [69].
PART II, IDEOLOGY AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE,
Angela Bourke, ‘The Baby and the Bathwater: Cultural Loss in Nineteenth-Century
Ireland’ [79]; Niall Ó Ciosáin, ‘Boccoughs and
God’s Poor: Deserving and Undeserving Poor in Irish Popular Culture’
[93]; Margaret Preston, ‘Discourse and Hegemony: Race and Class in
the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin’ [100]; Thomas
A. Boylan and Terrence McDonough, ‘Dependency and Modernization:
Perspectives from the Irish Nineteenth Century’ [113]; Peter Gray,
‘Nassau Senior, the Edinburgh Review and Ireland 1843-49 [130];
Thomas Duddy, The Peculiar Opinions of an Irish Platonist: The Life and
Thought of Thomas Maguire’ [143]; III, IDEOLOGIES OF NATION AND IDENTITY];
Margorie Howes, ‘Tears and Blood: Lady Wilde and the Emergence of
Irish Cultural Nationalism’ [15I]; Eva Stoter, ‘Grimmige
Zeiten’:The Influence of Lessing, Herder and the Grimm Brothers
on the Nationalism of theYoung Irelanders’ [173]; Niamh O’Sullivan,
‘The Iron Cage of Femininity:Visual Representation of Women in the
1880s Land Agitation’ [181]; Edward A. Hagan, ‘The Aryan Myth:
A Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Will to Power’ [197]; Chris Morash,
‘Celticism: Between Race and Nation’ [206]; Notes on Contributors
[214]; Index [216].