Description: Sheds new light on the impact of magazine culture on Irish literature from the 1800s to the present.
Brief description: Elke D'hoker is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven and Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She has published widely on Irish fiction, the modern short story, periodical studies and literary pedagogy. She is the author of Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (2016) and Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville (2004). She has edited or co-edited 11 books, including The Writer's Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2022), Sarah Hall. Critical Essays (2022), Ethel Colburn Mayne. Selected Stories (2021), The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture (2021), The Irish Short Story (2015) and Mary Lavin (2013).
Review Quotes: This highly absorbing and informative volume provides a much needed history of Irish periodical culture: individual essays illuminate the diversity and vitality of Irish literary magazines and journals, along with fascinating transnational dimensions. Overall the collection confirms the centrality of periodicals, as media and material objects, in the making of literary success.--Margaret Kelleher, University College Dublin