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Book The Blakes and Flanagans

Download or read book The Blakes and Flanagans written by Mrs. J. Sadlier and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Irish Voice in America

Download or read book The Irish Voice in America written by Charles Fanning and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.

Book The Works of Orestes A  Brownson  Explanations and index

Download or read book The Works of Orestes A Brownson Explanations and index written by Orestes Augustus Brownson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial Crossings

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  • Author : Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
  • Publisher : Field Day Publications
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0946755280
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Colonial Crossings written by Marjorie Elizabeth Howes and published by Field Day Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brownson s Quarterly Review

Download or read book Brownson s Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shamrock and the Cross

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  • Author : Eileen P. Sullivan
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 2016-03-15
  • ISBN : 0268093032
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book The Shamrock and the Cross written by Eileen P. Sullivan and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism, Eileen P. Sullivan traces changes in nineteenth-century American Catholic culture through a study of Catholic popular literature. Analyzing more than thirty novels spanning the period from the 1830s to the 1870s, Sullivan elucidates the ways in which Irish immigration, which transformed the American Catholic population and its institutions, also changed what it meant to be a Catholic in America. In the 1830s and 1840s, most Catholic fiction was written by American-born converts from Protestant denominations; after 1850, most was written by Irish immigrants or their children, who created characters and plots that mirrored immigrants’ lives. The post-1850 novelists portrayed Catholics as a community of people bound together by shared ethnicity, ritual, and loyalty to their priests rather than by shared theological or moral beliefs. Their novels focused on poor and working-class characters; the reasons they left their homeland; how they fared in the American job market; and where they stood on issues such as slavery, abolition, and women’s rights. In developing their plots, these later novelists took positions on capitalism and on race and gender, providing the first alternative to the reigning domestic ideal of women. Far more conscious of American anti-Catholicism than the earlier Catholic novelists, they stressed the dangers of assimilation and the importance of separate institutions supporting a separate culture. Given the influence of the Irish in church institutions, the type of Catholicism they favored became the gold standard for all American Catholics, shaping their consciousness until well into the next century.

Book Explanations and index

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  • Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1887
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 650 pages

Download or read book Explanations and index written by Orestes Augustus Brownson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beloved Strangers

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  • Author : Anne C. Rose
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780674006409
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Beloved Strangers written by Anne C. Rose and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interfaith marriage is a visible and often controversial part of American life--and one with a significant history. This is the first historical study of religious diversity in the home. Anne Rose draws a vivid picture of interfaith marriages over the century before World War I, their problems and their social consequences. She shows how mixed-faith families became agents of change in a culture moving toward pluralism. Following them over several generations, Rose tracks the experiences of twenty-six interfaith families who recorded their thoughts and feelings in letters, journals, and memoirs. She examines the decisions husbands and wives made about religious commitment, their relationships with the extended families on both sides, and their convictions. These couples--who came from strong Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish backgrounds--did not turn away from religion but made personalized adjustments in religious observance. Increasingly, the author notes, women took charge of religion in the home. Rose's family-centered look at private religious decisions and practice gives new insight on American society in a period when it was becoming more open, more diverse, and less community-bound.

Book Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth Century America

Download or read book Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth Century America written by Jon Gjerde and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians have construed this history in univocal terms, Jon Gjerde bridges sectarian divides by presenting Protestants and Catholics in conversation with each other. In so doing, Gjerde reveals the ways in which America's encounter with Catholicism was much more than a story about American nativism. Nineteenth-century religious debates raised questions about the fundamental underpinnings of the American state and society: the shape of the antebellum market economy, gender roles in the American family, and the place of slavery were only a few of the issues engaged by Protestants and Catholics in a lively and enduring dialectic. While the question of the place of Catholics in America was left unresolved, the very debates surrounding this question generated multiple conceptions of American pluralism and American national identity.

Book Famine Irish and the American Racial State

Download or read book Famine Irish and the American Racial State written by Peter D. O'Neill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of Irish racialization in the United States have tended to stress Irish difference. Famine Irish and the American Racial State takes a different stance. This interdisciplinary, transnational work uses an array of cultural artifacts, including novels, plays, songs, cartoons, government reports, laws, sermons, memoirs, and how-to manuals, to make its case. It challenges the claim that the Irish "became white" in the United States, showing that the claim fails to take into full account the legal position of the Irish in the nineteenth-century US state – a state that deemed the Irish "white" upon arrival. The Irish thus not only fitted into the US racial state; they helped to form it. Till now, little heed has been paid to the state’s role in the Americanization of the Irish or to the Irish role in the development of US state institutions. Distinguishing American citizenship from American nationality, this volume journeys to California to analyze the means by which the Irish gained acceptance in both categories, at the expense of the Chinese. Along the way, it contests ideas that have taken hold within American studies. One is the notion that the Roman Catholic Church operated outside of the power structure of the nineteenth-century United States. On the contrary, Famine Irish and the American Racial State argues, the Irish-led corporate Catholic Church became deeply imbricated in US state structures. Its final chapter discusses a radical, transnational, Irish tradition that offers a glimpse at a postnational future.

Book Which Direction Ireland  Proceedings of the 2006 ACIS Mid Atlantic Regional Conference

Download or read book Which Direction Ireland Proceedings of the 2006 ACIS Mid Atlantic Regional Conference written by Donald McNamara and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland is going changes so rapidly and so dramatically that it has left many people, both in Ireland and abroad, wondering where it is headed next, as well as leaving some people wondering where it actually came from. Which direction Ireland? probes a variety of currents and concepts at play in Ireland, examining geographical, historical, social, political, and literary changes that have taken place in both Ireland and Irish-America. It offers cogent insight into those changes and and well-founded projections about the future. While examining the question, Which Direction Ireland? provides encouragement for those who want to make the journey with enthusiasm as well as curiosity.

Book The Works of Orestes A  Brownson

Download or read book The Works of Orestes A Brownson written by Orestes Augustus Brownson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Book Ireland s Empire

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  • Author : Colin Barr
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-16
  • ISBN : 1107040922
  • Pages : 583 pages

Download or read book Ireland s Empire written by Colin Barr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century for the first time.

Book Catholic Women Writers

Download or read book Catholic Women Writers written by Mary Reichardt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have been writing in the Catholic tradition since early medieval times, yet no single volume has brought together critical evaluations of their works until now. The first reference of its kind, Catholic Women Writers provides entries on 64 Catholic women writers from around the world and across the centuries. Each of the entries is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography of the author; a critical discussion of her works, especially her Catholic and women's themes; an overview of her critical reception; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Authors writing in all genres, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, children's literature, and essays, are represented. The entries give special attention to the authors' use of Catholic themes, structures, traditions, culture, and spirituality. The writers surveyed range from Doctors of the Church to mystics and visionaries, to those who employ Catholic themes primarily in historical and cultural contexts, to those who critique the tradition. An introductory essay places the writers within the historical and literary contexts of women's writing in the Catholic tradition, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Book Brownson s Review

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1856
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 830 pages

Download or read book Brownson s Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Exiles of Erin

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  • Author : Charles Fanning
  • Publisher : Dufour Editions
  • Release : 1997-04-28
  • ISBN : 0802360602
  • Pages : 447 pages

Download or read book The Exiles of Erin written by Charles Fanning and published by Dufour Editions. This book was released on 1997-04-28 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of immense value to anyone interested in the Irish story in America.--The Boston Globe. This collection of three generations of Irish immigrant fiction excerpted from novels, magazines, and newspapers provides new insight into the nineteenth-century immigrant experience. It captures the spirit of those who were experiencing the traumas of adjustment and assimilation. The men and women authors of these pieces vividly render the details of immigrant life in a variety of settings, from Virginia and Nebraska to San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston, from 1820 to 1906. Fanning places each selection in its historical and cultural context by means of introductory notes. Together, they provide the most extended, continuous body of literature available to us by members of a single American ethnic group. This new edition provides some additional selections as well as new background material. Charles Fanning is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Book Re Mapping Exile

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  • Author : Michael Boss
  • Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
  • Release : 2006-05-01
  • ISBN : 8779349226
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Re Mapping Exile written by Michael Boss and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection combine historical, cultural, and literary analyses in their treatment of aspects of exile in Irish writing. Some are 'structuralist' in seeing exile as a physical state of being, often associated with absence, into which an individual willingly or unwillingly enters. Others are 'poststructuralist', considering the narration of exile as a celebration of transgressiveness, hybridity, and otherness. This type of exile moves away from a political, cultural, economic idea of exile to an understanding of exile in a wider existential sense. The volume presents readings of Irish literature, history and culture that reflect some of the historical, sociological, psychological and philosophical dimensions of exile in the 1800s and 1900s. The theme of exile is discussed in a wide range of texts including literature, political writings and song-writing, either in works of Irish writers not normally associated with exile, or in which new aspects of 'exile' can be discerned. The essays cover, among others: Butler, D'Arcy McGee, Mulholland, Joyce, Hewitt, Van Morrison, Ni Chuilleanain, Doyle, and Banville.