The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Literature and Periodical Culture

Long before many Irish stories reached hardback, they appeared in magazines: Christmas numbers, little reviews, London and New York monthlies. Elke D'hoker's companion gathers thirty new essays on how the periodical press since the nineteenth century fostered, circulated and translated Irish writing, drawing on fresh archival material about Emily Lawless, Mary Lavin, John McGahern and James Joyce. The contributors follow editors, publishers, authors and readers through networks reaching across Ireland, Britain and America.

Some of the most rewarding chapters recover titles that have slipped from view, offering the first full critical accounts of A Celtic Christmas, the Kilkenny Magazine, the Honest Ulsterman, Broadsheet, Poetry Ireland, The Dubliner and Surge. Together they show how magazines helped shape genres and settle the Irish canon. A substantial resource for scholars of Irish studies, print culture and the digital humanities.