Relocating regionalism: the Fin-de-Siècle Irish local colour tale in transnational contexts

Corporaal, M.C.M.

doi:10.1080/09670882.2020.1740429

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“…The life and novels of Erminda Rentoul Esler have recently received critical attention in Patrick Maume's work (2019;2020). Maume contextualises her novels in the Ulster and Scottish 'kailyard' tradition, noting that she embraces typical kailyard themes such as 'doctrinal conflict within Presbyterianism … the contrast between provincial society and a commercialised, financialised and untrustworthy urban modernity' (2020: 168).…”

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Glocal Irish Village Imaginaries: the Local-colour Stories of Erminda Rentoul Esler and Katherine Frances Purdon

Bruna¹

2022

Open Library of Humanities

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In this article, I explore the way two lesser-known Irish women writers—Donegal-born but London-based Erminda Rentoul Esler (1860–1924) and County Meath native and resident Katherine Frances Purdon (1852–1920)—differently construct the ‘local’ in their village tales at the turn of the twentieth century. I highlight the ways in which their regional stories existed in a complex, supranational media environment that was simultaneously alert to local modes of Irish revivalism and international literary trends but also models of regionalism such as the Scottish ‘kailyard’ tradition and North American local colour fiction. I therefore propose that both writers’ villages are ‘glocal’, because of their engagement with other national traditions of village literature and with international audiences and publishers. In the case of both authors, the stories involve a glocal village imaginary which supersedes both Irish national borders and Irish regions and is inspired by existing traditions of village literature beyond Ireland.

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Glocal Irish Village Imaginaries: the Local-colour Stories of Erminda Rentoul Esler and Katherine Frances Purdon

Bruna¹

2022

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“…Recent research by Giulia Bruna and Marguérite Corporaal on Irish and Scottish local colour fiction further expands such cosmopolitan understandings of the genre by highlighting the transnational contexts of its production, distribution, and reception (Corporaal, 2020b;Bruna, 2021). Indeed, while rural Donegal as imagined in MacManus's oeuvre and its reception showcases the conservatism that frequently characterises popular constructions of the region in national and indeed diasporic contexts, its transatlantic popularity underscores that local colour writing as an historical phenomenon should be understood in dynamic terms, beyond the elementary opposition of nation and region.…”

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‘Seanachie to the New World’: Seumas MacManus and the Transatlantic Appeal of Irish Local Colour

Cusack¹

2022

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From the late 1890s onwards, Donegal writer Seumas MacManus was a frequent contributor to leading American periodicals and was often listed alongside noted American local colour writers. Moreover, the first books he published in America were immediately successful. MacManus rooted his work explicitly in Donegal and its seanchaí tradition, and in the United States in particular his works were positioned as representative of an authentic Celticity. But why did MacManus’s work translate so readily to the American market? And what were the contexts that engendered the success of his stories and books? Using reviews, profiles, promotional materials, letters, and MacManus’s self-presentations, this article explores how his work contributed to the construction and commodification of a transatlantic sense of Irishness rooted in local colour conventions. It concludes that the American reception of his work demonstrates how apparently local formations of regional identity garnered transatlantic attention not only as a function of their exoticness, but also as a result of the instrumentalisation of domestic literary conventions that generated conceptual links between localness and universality.

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Irish Women Writers and Their (Trans)National Networks: Making and Translating Local Colour Literature

Corporaal

2023

English Studies

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Irish women's local colour fiction should be analysed in relation to three levels of literary brokerage: dedication, reviewing, and translation. This becomes clear from the case studies of Jane Barlow and Katharine Tynan, who moved in the same literary circles, a network of Irish authors during the 1880s and 1890s who recorded regional ways of life in their fiction and poetry. What has remained underexplored is how these two womenby referencing each other's writings and by dedicating their work to each other and other women writersactively helped to shape the parameters of an Irish version of local colour literature on both sides of the Atlantic. This study will address how local colour literature developed through networks between Irish women writers, and especially through the ways in which they reviewed each other's work. Additionally, this article makes a case for an extension of our perception of female literary networks in terms of transnational distribution. It looks at translators, an often neglected group of female literary agents at the time, who in the case of Irish regional literature played a pivotal role in disseminating these women writers' works outside Ireland.

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Relocating regionalism: the Fin-de-Siècle Irish local colour tale in transnational contexts

Cited by 4 publications

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Glocal Irish Village Imaginaries: the Local-colour Stories of Erminda Rentoul Esler and Katherine Frances Purdon

Glocal Irish Village Imaginaries: the Local-colour Stories of Erminda Rentoul Esler and Katherine Frances Purdon

‘Seanachie to the New World’: Seumas MacManus and the Transatlantic Appeal of Irish Local Colour

Irish Women Writers and Their (Trans)National Networks: Making and Translating Local Colour Literature

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