James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Urbanizing the Revival: Urban Planning, Irish Modernism, and Dublin

   • Liam Lanigan

   Pages 1-42

3. A Drama in Muslin and the Formation of an Irish Urban Modernism

   • Liam Lanigan

   Pages 43-71

4. ‘A Space-embracing Somewhere, Beyond Surmise, Beyond Geography’: Visions of the City in the Irish Revival

   • Liam Lanigan

   Pages 72-101

5. ‘A More Spacious Age’: Reimagining the City in Dubliners

   • Liam Lanigan

   Pages 102-127

6. A Portrait of the City

   • Liam Lanigan

   Pages 128-153

7. ‘If My Memory Serves Me’: the Subject, Memory, and Democratic Planning in ‘Wandering Rocks’

   • Liam Lanigan

   Pages 154-177

8. ‘A Necessary Evil’: Planning and the Marginal Space of Nighttown in ‘Circe’

   • Liam Lanigan

   Pages 178-203

9. Epilogue: Writing Dublin after Joyce

   • Liam Lanigan

   Pages 204-211

10. Back Matter

    Pages 213-243

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Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the particular political, social, and cultural conditions of Dublin, emerged in Ireland at this time.

• city
• drama
• Modernism
• planning
• space
• time
• town
• British and Irish Literature
• landscape/regional and urban planning

“James Joyce, Urban Planning and Irish Modernism is effectively divided into two parts, with the first focusing upon Irish Modernist fiction before Joyce, and the second examining Joyce and his aftermath. … this is an assured and incisive intervention in both Joycean and Irish studies scholarship, offering a unique insight into the hitherto obscured intersections of Irish literature and Irish planning.” (Stephen O’Neill, Notes and Queries, Vol. 63 (3), September, 2016)

“Lanigan’s book offers to Joyce scholars several useful new contexts in which to reread, and rediscover, Joyce’s fictions. It also suggests, to scholars of Irish literature or urban literature, new ways to think about literary representations of Dublin before and after Joyce.” (Michael Rubenstein, James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 53 (1-2), 2015-2016)

“This study provides a useful historic reminder of architectural modes and issues and recalls the first professional manifestation of town planning in Ireland … . this is an essential … addition to the burgeoning analysis of the birth pangs of Irish town planning.” (Fergal MacCabe, Pleanáil, Issue 21, 2015-2016)

"James Joyce, Urban Planning, and Irish Modernism makes a worthy contribution to scholarship on the city of Dublin as central to 'local,' nationalist, and internationalist dimensions of Irish modernist production. Lanigan's examination of the theory and practice of urban planning in the production of Irish literary culture (material, narratological, and conceptual) fills a significant gap in Joyce studies, modernist studies, and studies of modern Irish literature." - Desmond Harding, Central Michigan University, USA

• University College Cork, Ireland

  Liam Lanigan

Liam Lanigan is an IRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Cork, Ireland. He has previously taught at NUI Maynooth, the University of Kaposva'r, Hungary, and University College Dublin.

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