From Enlightenment to Rebellion

Edited by James G. Buickerood - Contributions by Paul William Child; Aedín Ní Bhróithe Clements; Carole Fabricant; Declan Kiberd; Mary McAleese; Patrick McCabe; Barry McCrae; Joseph McMinn; Peter McQuillan; Kurt Edward Milberger; Amy C. Mulligan; Bríona N

This collection of essays honors Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions and subjects to which he has made enduring contributions through his academic leadership.

List of IllustrationsForeword by Mary McAleesePrefaceIntroduction: A Knowledge both of Books and Humankind by James G. BuickeroodPart I. Scholarship and Academic LeadershipChapter 1: Chris Fox-The Man Who Reimagined Irish Studies by Joseph McMinnChapter 2: "Casting and Gathering": Chris Fox the Librarian by Aedín Ní Bhróithe ClementsPart II. Medieval and Early Modern Irish Epic and VerseChapter 3: The Erasure of a Warrior's Body: Cú Chulainn, Isidore of Seville, and IrishIndependence by Amy C. MulliganChapter 4: Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn's Poem for Cormac O'Hara: "A good merchant is Cormac" byPeter McQuillanPart III. The Early Eighteenth-Century Unsubstantial Self ReduxChapter 5: Self as Consciousness, Self as Sui Generis: John Locke and Charles Mein on theNature of Self by James G. BuickeroodPart IV. Eschatological and Ecological Judgment in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesChapter 6: Shipwreck with Spectators: or, Watching the Pain of Others in Seventeenth- andEighteenth-Century Intellectual History by Dirk F. Paßmann and Hermann J. RealChapter 7: Pope's Anthropogenic Dunciad by John SitterPart V. Jonathan Swift's Relations-with Patients, with NeighborsChapter 8: Swift's "Careful" Nurse and Sick Relations by Paul William ChildChapter 9: Swift's Neighbours: Mutual Subjection, Brotherly Love, and Kindness to Yahoos byKurt Edward MilbergerPart VI. Late Eighteenth-Century Reactionary Thought and Revolutionary SpiritChapter 10: Jonathan Swift, "Dangerous Authors," and the Irish Patriot Tradition by Jim SmythChapter 11: "A Vulgar Bourgeois Through and Through": Marx's Burke and the Rise of thePolitical Economist by Carole FabricantPart VII. The Easter Rising on Stage and in FilmChapter 12: Merely Players: Shakespeare and 1916 by Declan KiberdChapter 13: Screening the 1916 Rebellion by Bríona Nic DhiarmadaPart VIII. Perspectives on LanguageChapter 14: Fame and Popular Culture: Thoughts on Writers and Orality in Ireland by DiarmuidÓ GiolláinChapter 15: On Language Change and Social Class in the Novel by Barry McCreaPart IX. Irish FictionChapter 15: The Glasson County Accident by Patrick McCabeSelect Bibliography of the Works of Christopher FoxIndexAbout the Contributors