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The Irish Bildungsroman
2025
Overview
The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of
human development-the harmonization of individual desires with
societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded, liberal
subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for
self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a
colonial society riven by nationalism, revolution, and uneven
modernization?
The Irish Bildungsroman provides the first
comprehensive study of how this quintessentially bourgeois and
European genre was transformed and reinvented by Irish writers
from the Act of Union to the present day. Through incisive
readings of over two centuries of Irish novels, the volume's
contributors illuminate the diverse narrative strategies Irish
authors have employed to depict personal formation within a
colonial/postcolonial nation fractured by religion, class,
gender, and ethnic divisions. Carefully periodized into three
major sections, the book maps the evolution of the Irish
Bildungsroman across key historical junctures: the rise of
cultural nationalism in the nineteenth century, the
revolutionary period and emergence of the postcolonial state in
the early twentieth century, and more recent waves of
globalization and the reconfiguration of Irish identity. From
Maria Edgeworth's post-Union novels to Sally Rooney's
millennial fictions,
The Irish Bildungsroman excavates a rich vein of
self-reflexive writing that creatively reworked this genre to
expose the fault lines of liberal humanism and imagine new
modes of selfhood.
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Subject
ISBN
081563854X, 9780815638544, 0815657323, 9780815657323
