Irish Conference of Historians, held at University College, Cork 23-26 May 1985. €30.00.
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Historical Studies: Publishing History x
Contributors xi
A polemical introduction: literature, literary theory and the historian by Tom Dunne 1
The Irish hagiographer: resources, aims, results by Charles Doherty 10
Legend as critic by Donnchach Ó Corráin 23
Winner and Waster and the mid-fourteenth century economy by John Scattergood 39
Bardic poetry as a historical source by Katharine Simms 58
Edmund Spenser on Justice and Mercy by Brendan Bradshaw 76
Irish national character 1790-1900 by Seamus Deane 90
Sandition: a Regency novel? by Oliver MacDonagh 114
Fiction as ‘the best history of nations’: Lady Morgan’s Irish novels by Tom Dunne 133
Jewish emancipation in nineteenth-century Germany and the stereotyping of the Jew in Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben (1855) by Eda Sagarra 160
Popular religion and irreligion in Victorian fiction by David Hempton 177
Mark Twain: historian of a lost world by Owen Dudley Edwards 197
Fictional images of Irish-America by Lawrence J. McCaffrey 227