The Irish novel in the nineteenth century

Facts and fictions

Jacqueline Belanger, editor

Irish fiction before the Union
Ian Campbell Ross

Fiction, interest, and the public sphere
Joep Leerssen

Public and private meanings in Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage
Claire Connolly

Banim and the historical novel
Emer Nolan

Irish women novelists in 19th-century England
Rolf Loeber & Magda Stouthamer-Loeber

Idyllic resistance in Griffin’s The Collegians
Dominick Tracy

Fiction of improvement from Hannah More to William Carleton
Helen O’Connell

Emigration and the Irish novel
Jason King

Protestant form and Catholic fiction?
Norman Vance

The critical decline of the 19th-century novel
Margaret Kelleher

Realism and modernity in Hurrish and The Real Charlotte
Kathleen Costello-Sullivan

The 19th-century Irish novel: notes and speculations on literary historiography
Joe Cleary

Afterwords
David Lloyd & Terry Eagleton