George Moore

Spheres of Influence

By: Kathryn Laing (Editor), Mary Pierse (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 October 2023

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288 Pages

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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, Mallarme, Wilde, Heloise, Elgar and Bourdieu, all with Moorian links. Contested depictions of religion and nationalism simmer; France and French influences encompass fin-de-siecle 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-siecle 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.

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'This collection conveys the spirit of an active scholarly community. Moore's relationship with women excites a frenzy of attention - a complex case, and interesting to clarify. Often, a contributor spots George Moore in a contemporary's writing, or notices how a motif from Moore is countered in a work by a contemporary. Overall, a fascinating fusion of scholarship, truly international.' Adrian Frazier, Professor Emeritus at the University of Galway and author of George Moore: 1852-1933

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