Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the last century and more. The essays focus on writers and artists whose work has been taken up and re-read overseas; on cultural producers who have engaged with transnational scales in their work; and on critical practices that pay attention to comparative, global, and planetary dimensions of Irish literature and culture. Nation and territory have long been central to cultural production in Ireland, especially as both remain significantly contested, but a continued focus on these inherited scales has hindered critical attention to transnational routes and roots that exist alongside and challenge the nation. This volume sets agenda for the future of study of transnationalism in Irish literature and culture, recognizing the need for a new set of theories and methodologies that are adequate to our emerging world.

The first publication to offer a large-scale survey of transnational scholarship in the field of Irish literature and culture.

About the Author
Coilin Parsons' first monograph, The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature (2016) won the American Conference for Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize and was shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize. He has co-edited Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa (2015) and Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism (2019).


Book Information
ISBN 9781316511213
Author Coilin Parsons
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 670g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm * 28mm