Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that ‘the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula, ‘ the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change. The collection spotlights authors ranging from James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O’Brien, and Samuel Beckett to less-studied writers like Emily Lawless, John Eglinton, Denis Johnston, and Lennox Robinson. With chapters on naturalism, futurism, dynamite, gramophones, uncertainty, astronomy, automobiles, and more, this book showcases the far-reaching scope and complexity of Irish writers’ engagement with innovations in science and technology.
Taken together, the fifteen original essays in Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism map a new literary landscape of Ireland in the twentieth century. By focusing on writers’ often-ignored interest in science and technology, this book uncovers shared concerns between revivalists, modernists, and late modernists that challenge us to rethink how we categorize and periodize Irish literature.
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Part One: Revival Dynamics
1. Natural History and the Irish Revival, Seán Hewitt
2. John Eglinton: An Irish Futurist, Julie Mc Cormick Weng
3. The Easter Rising as Modern Event: Media, Technology, and Terror, Luke Gibbons
Part Two: Machine Fever
4. Infernal Machines: Weapons, Media, and the Networked Modernism of Tom Greer and James Joyce, Kathryn Conrad
5. Machinic Yeats, Gregory Castle
6. Accelerate: Why Elizabeth Bowen Liked Cars, Simon During
Part Three: Sounds Modern
7. Gramophonic Strain in Lennox Robinson’s Portrait, Susanne S. Cammack
8. His Remastered Voice: Joyce for Vinyl, Damien Keane
9. Broadcatastrophe!: Denis Johnston’s Radio Drama and the Aesthetics of Working It Out, Jeremy Lakoff
Part Four: Body Trouble
10. Corrigan’s Pulse, Medicine, and Irish Modernism, Enda Duffy
11. Sassenachs and Their Syphilization: The Irish Revival, Deanglicization, and Eugenics, Alan Graham
12. De generatione et corruptione: Samuel Beckett and the Biological, Chris Ackerley
Part Five: Strange Experiments
13. Science, the Occult, and Irish Drama: Ghosts in Yeats and Beckett, Katherine Ebury
14. The Uncertainty of Late Irish Modernism: Flann O’Brien and Erwin Schrödinger in Dublin, Andrew Kalaidjian
15. John Banville, Long Form, and the Time of Late Modernism, Cóilín Parsons
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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Kathryn Conrad is associate professor and chair of the English department at the University of Kansas and author of Locked in the Family Cell: Gender, Sexuality, and Political Agency in Irish National Discourse.Cóilín Parsons is associate professor of English at Georgetown University and author of The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature.Julie Mc Cormick Weng is assistant professor of English at Texas State University.
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