This collection of essays honors Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions and subjects to which he has made enduring contributions through his academic leadership.
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List of Illustrations
Foreword by Mary McAleese
Preface
Introduction: A Knowledge both of Books and Humankind by James G. Buickerood
Part I. Scholarship and Academic Leadership
Chapter 1: Chris Fox-The Man Who Reimagined Irish Studies by Joseph McMinn
Chapter 2: "Casting and Gathering": Chris Fox the Librarian by Aedí n Ní Bhró ithe Clements
Part II. Medieval and Early Modern Irish Epic and Verse
Chapter 3: The Erasure of a Warrior's Body: Cú Chulainn, Isidore of Seville, and Irish
Independence by Amy C. Mulligan
Chapter 4: Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn's Poem for Cormac O'Hara: "A good merchant is Cormac" by
Peter McQuillan
Part III. The Early Eighteenth-Century Unsubstantial Self Redux
Chapter 5: Self as Consciousness, Self as Sui Generis: John Locke and Charles Mein on the
Nature of Self by James G. Buickerood
Part IV. Eschatological and Ecological Judgment in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Chapter 6: Shipwreck with Spectators: or, Watching the Pain of Others in Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History by Dirk F. Paß mann and Hermann J. Real
Chapter 7: Pope's Anthropogenic Dunciad by John Sitter
Part V. Jonathan Swift's Relations-with Patients, with Neighbors
Chapter 8: Swift's "Careful" Nurse and Sick Relations by Paul William Child
Chapter 9: Swift's Neighbours: Mutual Subjection, Brotherly Love, and Kindness to Yahoos by
Kurt Edward Milberger
Part VI. Late Eighteenth-Century Reactionary Thought and Revolutionary Spirit
Chapter 10: Jonathan Swift, "Dangerous Authors," and the Irish Patriot Tradition by Jim Smyth
Chapter 11: "A Vulgar Bourgeois Through and Through": Marx's Burke and the Rise of the
Political Economist by Carole Fabricant
Part VII. The Easter Rising on Stage and in Film
Chapter 12: Merely Players: Shakespeare and 1916 by Declan Kiberd
Chapter 13: Screening the 1916 Rebellion by Brí ona Nic Dhiarmada
Part VIII. Perspectives on Language
Chapter 14: Fame and Popular Culture: Thoughts on Writers and Orality in Ireland by Diarmuid
Ó Giollá in
Chapter 15: On Language Change and Social Class in the Novel by Barry McCrea
Part IX. Irish Fiction
Chapter 15: The Glasson County Accident by Patrick McCabe
Select Bibliography of the Works of Christopher Fox
Index
About the Contributors
