Essays on James Clarence Mangan

This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century. It features contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers including Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson.

This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century. It features contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers including Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations On the Tiles with J.C. Mangan; Paul Muldoon Introduction; Sinéad Sturgeon 1. Unauthorised Mangan; Sean Ryder 2. Mangan in England; Matthew Campbell 3. Crossing Over: On Mangan's 'Spirit's Everywhere'; David Lloyd 4. 'Fully Able /To Write in Any Language I'm a Babel': James Clarence Mangan and the Task of the Translator; David Wheatley 5. 'Antiquity and Futurity' in the Writings of James Clarence Mangan; Joseph Lennon 6. Cosmopolitan Form: Mangan's Anthologies and the Critique of Weltliteratur ; Cóilín Parsons 7. Night Singer: Mangan Among the Birds; Sinéad Sturgeon 8. 'The last of the bardic poets': Joyce's Multiple Mangans; John McCourt 9. '[M]y mind is destroying me': Consciousness, 'Psychological Narrative,' and Supernaturalist Modes in Mangan's Fiction; Richard Haslam 10. The Spiritual 'vastation' of James Clarence Mangan: Magic, Technology, and Identity; Anne Jamison 11. Shades of Mangan; Ciaran Carson Bibliography Index