George Moore: Spheres of Influence - Hardcover

Kathryn Laing; Mary Pierse

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1837644438 ISBN 13: 9781837644438

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2023

Synopsis

This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933). With an eye to Moore’s innovative embrace of visual art, feminism and literary history, and in the spirit of his feisty resistance to ‘orthodoxy’, it investigates his influences and inventive strategies in novel, short story and memoir. Amongst the names emerging from the disparate spheres of impressionism, literary coteries, the paratextual and the music world are those of Manet, Mallarmé, Wilde, Héloïse, Elgar and Bourdieu, all with Moorian links. Contested depictions of religion and nationalism simmer; France and French influences encompass fin-de-siècle stories and medieval texts; epistolary details evidence vital parental support; contemporary authors write back to Moore. These voyages of discovery enter the fields of feminist scholarship and the New Woman, life writing and letters, fin-de-siècle aesthetics, intersections between art, music and literature, and literary transitions from Victorian to Modern. Valuably, the authors suggest numerous opportunities for additional research in these areas, as well as within Moore studies. This collection, with contributions from an international set of established and new scholars, delivers fresh and original findings as it builds on the substantial and ever-growing corpus of Moore studies.

About this title

About the Author

Kathryn Laing lectures in the Department of English Language and Literature, MIC, University of Limerick.<br /><br />Mary Pierse, an independent scholar, formerly taught in the School of English at University College Cork.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1837644438
• ISBN 13: 9781837644438
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Laing Kathryn, Pierse Mary