Author: Helena Wulff File Type: pdf This is the first anthropological study of writers, writing and contemporary literary culture. Drawing on the flourishing literary scene in Ireland as the basis for her research, Helena Wulff explores the social world of contemporary Irish writers, examining fiction, novels, short stories as well as journalism. Discussing writers such as John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibin, Frank McCourt, Anne Enright, Deirdre Madden, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Colum McCann, David Park, and Joseph OConnor, Wulff reveals how the making of a writers career is built on the rhythms of writing long hours of writing in solitude alternate with public events such as book readings and media appearances. Destined to launch a new field of enquiry, Rhythms of Writing is essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology, literary studies, creative writing, cultural studies, and Irish studies. **Review Rhythms of Writing is a rich, subtle and intimate anthropological portrait of the lives and works of Irish writers authored by one of our finest ethnographers of art and artistic practice. Wulff writes across the grain of common assumptions that writers should be treated as individual geniuses. Instead, Wulff shows us how Irish writers are social actors influenced by their society, relationships, time and place, yet who also translate their own social experience into more broadly reaching and durable cultural forms. This one-of-a-kind book breathes new life into the anthropology of literature and writing. * Dominic Boyer, Rice University, USA * This anthropological study of the public lives world of renowned writers in Ireland, and of the writing that originates far from the market and media in a mundane private sphere of desk-bound craft, shows off Helena Wulffs unique gifts. She earns the writers trust, discloses their habitual rhythms, personal and cultural she invokes an Irish storytelling tradition and she offers complex social commentary on professionalism, finance, celebrity, migration, translation and postcolonialism. A highly insightful, rewarding book. * Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews, UK * Rhythms of Writing provides a fascinating exploration of contemporary Irish literature. Individual lives and personalities, shared and distinctive writing practices, translation (across languages and across media), marketing, and other dimensions central to the ongoing shaping of Irish letters emerge with provocative clarity in Wulffs generous, insightful, and distinctively ethnographic account. * Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Using an innovative approach to the anthropology of literature, Wulff draws upon her extensive knowledge of Irish society to describe the ways contemporary Irish authors talk about their craft and careers. She blends cultural and literary analysis to show us how writers engage with commerce, with their publics, and with the changing global scene. * Deborah Reed-Danahay, University at Buffalo, USA * About the Author Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden

Author: Caroline Grigson File Type: pdf Anne Home Hunter (1741-1821) was one of the most successful song writers of the second half of the eighteenth century, most famously as the poet who wrote the lyrics of many of Haydns songs. However her work, which included many more serious, lyrical and romantic poems has been largely forgotten. This book contains over 200 poems, some published in her life-time under her married name Mrs John Hunter, some attributed only to a Lady, and most importantly many transcribed from her manuscripts, housed in various archives and in a private collection, which are now collected for the first time. Hitherto Anne Hunter has been known almost entirely through her Poems published in 1802, in her Introduction Isobel Armstrong argues that she saw this book as a definitive representation of her poetry. Besides her consummately skilful lyrics and songs it contains serious political odes and reflective poems. The unpublished material amplifies and extends the work of 1802. The introduction is followed by a long biographical essay by Caroline Grigson. The daughter of Robert Home, an impoverished Scottish Army surgeon, Anne Hunter spent her adult life in London where she married the famous anatomist John Hunter, with whom she lived in great style, latterly as a bluestocking hostess, until his death in 1793. The book includes many new details of her long life, her friendship with Angelica Kaufman (who painted her portrait - see cover) and the bluestocking, Elizabeth Carter. The account of Annes life as a widow describes her relationships with her family, her niece the playwright Joanna Baillie, and her friends, especially those of the famous Minto family, as well as the Scottish impresario George Thomson. Of especial interest is the discovery of a previously unrecorded visit that Haydn made to her during his second London visit when she was living in Blackheath. Expertly researched which Grigsons book sets Anne Hunters oeuvre in the political and social context of the time and will be required reading to scholars of literature and music alike.