Date of Publication: 2006-09-01

In this volume, there are studies of sophisticated composition, and fresh approaches to textual analysis. The multiple Moore talents are scrutinised, myths are dispelled and new evidence is uncovered for historic linkages. George Moore’s anticipation of Freudian psychological insights and his engagement with Darwinian theses are but two of his close involvements with key nineteenth-century figures. Manet, Degas, Parnell, Kant, Maupassant, Gladstone, Zola, Marx and Woolf must feature on the list of names that are inseparable from Moore’s life and work. Yeats and Joyce also loom large and their under-acknowledged indebtedness to Moore poses difficult questions for literary history. While Moore’s own debt to French artistic influences, English models, and Irish heritage has long been recognised, perceptions of Moore’s writing from outside the Anglophone world highlight issues that demand further consideration. This multi-faceted author is well-served by these new studies that, in turn, suggest additional avenues yet to be explored.

'The dust jacket ... announces that the volumes eighteen essays ... offer "fresh insights into diverse elements" of Moore's oeuvre and reflect the wide variety of his "literary innovations, influences and legacy." Readers will not be disappointed: here is MOore in all shapes and guises - from autobiographer to Voltairian - through the lenses of Irish, English, American, French, Spanish, Brazilian, and Greek scholars.'

From a review in

English Literature in Transition

Praise for the book:

"This volume is a most welcome and timely reassessment of George Moore’s significance in Irish and world literature, of his sense of innovation, his modernism, his significance to James Joyce, his artistic role. The variety of the theoretical approaches, of the national backgrounds of the authors, their emphasis on Moore’s significance in their own countries all contribute to the interest of this book.

This is an excellent analysis of the significance of what Deleuze and Gattari call “minority literature”, i. e. “the literature of a minority written in the language of the majority, a literature in which compulsive expression of revolutionary sentiment cannot be avoided by its author”.

Moore is rendered visible in his working and reworking of the written text and the process through which textual grammar reveals psychic grammar is made explicit."

Prof. J. Brihault

"George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds is an engaging portrait of [the writer] in literary perspective"

Nicholas Allen, Ass. Prof at the Univ. of North Carolina

in The Irish Times Weekend Review, Saturday, June 30, 2007

Mary Pierse has taught 17th and 18th-century poetry and late 19th-century prose in the Department of English, UCC, Cork where she is IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2004-2006). Organiser of the first international and tri-lingual Moore conference in 2005, her current research is focused on Literary Impressionism and gender depiction in Moore’s novels. Publications include articles on the art, landscapes, literary complexity and European connections of George Moore, and on the poetry of Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Dennis O’Driscoll.

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