Books in the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland series

Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers the emerging field of the history of emotion and what a history of happiness in Ireland might looklike. This volume explores how the idea of happiness shaped social, literary, architectural and aesthetic aspirations across the century.

This volume explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience.