This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Irish suburbia have received relatively little scholarly consideration and this multidisciplinary volume redresses this critical deficit. It significantly advances the nascent socio-historical field of Irish suburban studies, while simultaneously disclosing and establishing a history of suburban Irish literary and visual culture. The essays also challenge conventional conceptions of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing and art and reveal that, though Irish suburban experience is often conceived of pejoratively by writers and artists, there are also many who register and valorise the imaginative possibilities of Irish suburbia and the meanings of its social and cultural life.
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2 Brave New Worlds? 150 Years of Irish Suburban Evolution |
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9 | (30) |
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3 The Irish Suburban Imaginary |
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39 | (18) |
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4 Dublin and Its Suburbs: The Sum of Its Parts? |
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57 | (20) |
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5 Suburbia in Irish Literary and Visual Culture |
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77 | (20) |
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6 A Severed Space: The Suburbs of South Dublin in Contemporary Irish Fiction |
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97 | (22) |
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7 Shame, Blame, and Change: Suburban Life in Irish Women's Fiction |
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119 | (20) |
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8 Suburbia and Irish Poetry |
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139 | (24) |
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9 Suburban Sensibilities in Contemporary Plays Set in Dublin |
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163 | (28) |
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10 Behind Closed Doors: Middle-Class Suburbia and Contemporary Irish Cinema |
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191 | (18) |
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11 `And This Is Where My Anxiety Manifested Itself': Gothic Suburbia in Contemporary Irish Art |
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209 | (18) |
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12 The Sounds of the Suburbs? Experiences and Imaginings of Popular Music in Dublin |
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227 | (22) |
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13 The Narrow Margins: Photography and the Terrain Vague |
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249 | (26) |
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14 SOUTHERN CROSS: Documentary Photography, the Celtic Tiger and a Future yet to Come |
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275 | (26) |
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15 A Landscape of Crisis: Photographing Post-Celtic Tiger Ghost Estates |
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301 | (22) |
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Eoghan Smith is Lecturer in English at Carlow College, St. Patricks, Ireland. He is the author of John Banville: Art and Authenticity (2013), and has published articles, chapters and reviews, primarily on Irish writing. Simon Workman is Lecturer in English at Carlow College, St. Patricks, Ireland. He has published articles, chapters and reviews on Irish poetry and culture in a number of different journals and collections, with his work appearing in the Irish Literary Supplement, Poetry Ireland, Irish Studies Review and The Review of English Studies.
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