Modernist Ecologies in Irish Literature
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 100
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A number of recent publications have drawn Irish modernist writing into the orbit of ecocritical analysis, including publications on James Joyce [Brazeau and Gladwin (2014)], [Barlow and Fagan (2024)], [Lacivita (2015)]; Flann O’Brien [Ebury, Fagan and Greaney (2024)]; and Samuel Beckett (Thobois-Gupta, McTighe, and Johnson (2025)]. The aim of this Special Issue is to build on such interventions. The essays collated here will develop on previous ecocritical engagements with Irish literary modernism, as well as relating this suite of authors to each other. The latter will facilitate conversations and comparisons to establish and develop Irish literary modernism as a vibrant field for ecocritical scholars globally. The Special Issue focuses on early to mid-twentieth century Irish writers. Research areas that might be addressed in prospective essays include the following: urbanization; animal rights and animal poetics; ecopoetics and experimental art; biopolitics and representation; modernism and materialist ecocriticism; modernism and the Anthropocene; modernism and temporal/spatial scales; and modernism and the more-than-human.
Dr. Eoin Flannery
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- modernism
- ecocriticism
- nonhuman
- animal
- blue humanities
- anthropocene
- irish modernism
- text-as-ecology
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