Literary Networks and Dissenting Print Culture in Romantic-Period Ireland

Literary Networks and Dissenting Irish Print Culture examines the origins of Irish labouring-class poetry produced in the liminal space of revolutionary Ulster (1790-1815), where religious dissent fostered a unique and distinctive cultural identity.

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Jennifer Orr is Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Literature at Newcastle University, UK. A graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Glasgow, she has published a number of articles on Romanticism and print culture including an edition of Irish Romantic period correspondence from United Irish circles and several articles on Scottish and Irish dissenting literature.

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Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Irish Poetic Networks, 1790-1815

1. Sentiment, Sociability and the construction of a poetic network
2. The Creation of Ulster Labouring-class Poetry
3. Revolution and Radical Dissenting Poetry
4. 'Here no treason lurks': Post-Union Bardic Regeneration
5. Dissenting Romanticism in the Early Enion Period
6. Metropolitan Print Culture and the Creation of Literary Ulster
   Conclusion
   Bibliography
   Notes
   Index