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- Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830
- Irish Literature in Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Transitions
- Part III Reputations
- Chapter 8 Placing Mary Tighe in Irish Literary History: From Manuscript Culture to Print
- Chapter 9 Edgeworth and Realism
- Chapter 10 Lady Morgan and ‘the babbling page of history’: Cultural Transition as Performance in the Irish National Tale
- Chapter 11 ‘The diabolical eloquence of horror’: Maturin’s Wanderings
- Chapter 12 English Ireland/Irish Ireland: the Poetry and Translations of J. J. Callanan
- Chapter 13 Thomas Moore and the Social Life of Forms
- Chapter 14 ‘English, Irished’: Union and Violence in the Fiction of John and Michael Banim
- Chapter 15 The Transition of Reputation: Gerald Griffin
- Chapter 16 William Maginn: the Cork Correspondent
- Part IV Futures
- Index
Chapter 15 - The Transition of Reputation: Gerald Griffin
from Part III - Reputations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830
- Irish Literature in Transition
- Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- General Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Transitions
- Part III Reputations
- Chapter 8 Placing Mary Tighe in Irish Literary History: From Manuscript Culture to Print
- Chapter 9 Edgeworth and Realism
- Chapter 10 Lady Morgan and ‘the babbling page of history’: Cultural Transition as Performance in the Irish National Tale
- Chapter 11 ‘The diabolical eloquence of horror’: Maturin’s Wanderings
- Chapter 12 English Ireland/Irish Ireland: the Poetry and Translations of J. J. Callanan
- Chapter 13 Thomas Moore and the Social Life of Forms
- Chapter 14 ‘English, Irished’: Union and Violence in the Fiction of John and Michael Banim
- Chapter 15 The Transition of Reputation: Gerald Griffin
- Chapter 16 William Maginn: the Cork Correspondent
- Part IV Futures
- Index
Summary
This chapter moves the reputation of Gerald Griffin’s The Collegians outside a predominantly Catholic context and argues that the transnational dimensions of the novel connect local with global forces. Griffin’s depiction of multicultural Catholic characters suggests a shifting version of Irish identity that can be constructed outside of morality and religion. The chapter highlights the cultural and political moments that shaped Griffin’s standing and suggests new ways of framing his achievements. It also shows Griffin was phased out of an emerging nationalist narrative of Irish literature, in part via the political reception of William Carleton in nationalist and Fenian newspapers of the 1840s. Meanwhile the movements in academic criticism in the 1960s that rescued Dion Boucicault from obscurity had the effect of reducing Griffin’s reputation to the creator of the Colleen Bawn.
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- Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830 , pp. 292 - 305Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020