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William Carleton

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Carleton, William

 

Born 1794 in Prillisk, County Tyrone; died Jan. 30, 1869, in Dublin. Irish writer and journalist.

Carleton became famous with the publication of Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (vols. 1–2, 1830). In the 1840’s he joined a group of revolutionary democratic writers associated with the journal Nation. His realistic novels, Valentine McClutchy, the Irish Agent, or Chronicles of the Castle Camber Property (1845) and The Black Prophet, A Tale of the Famine (1847), portrayed the tragic struggle of the peasants against hunger and disease.

WORKS

Autobiography. London, 1968.

REFERENCES

Kiely, B. Poor Scholar: A Study of the Works and Days of W. Carleton (1794–1869). London, 1947.
Flanagan, T. The Irish Novelists, 1800–1850. New York, 1959.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in periodicals archive
John William Carleton: |Bonfire raiding and roasting tatties for a couple of days afterwards as the bonfire was kept alight.
In the work under review here, it is particularly pleasing to see the often disparaged Samuel Lover and Charles Lever being afforded their rightful place, and William Carleton's seemingly unassailable position as arbiter of all that was authentic about rural, Gaelic Ireland, challenged.
into being" (19), she provides perceptive analyses of writers as different as William Carleton who was creating characters of "psychological complexity" (31) and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu who "specialized in conveying states of mind." On Carleton's 1842 deliberation on the overuse of dialect and the device of peasants talking being replaced by the educated narrator, she writes, "This clearly important moment in the transition from the oral tradition ...
Chapter 8 focuses on William Carleton and William Sharp (a.k.a.
BOMA President William Carleton testified several times to try to convince the EPA to conduct further studies before putting all the pressure on the real estate industry.
The Carleton Trail is a signposted walk through the lovely Clogher Valley, a region associated with William Carleton's writings.
William Carleton, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (London: 1867; reprint, 1971) 309,316.
The two Irish Victorians are William Carleton and Thomas D'Arcy Magee, 'comparative failures', 'hampered by an atavistic sense of tradition'; and the Revival is examined in terms of the careers of St John Ervine and Joyce, 'united, if in nothing else, in their complex disrespect for |its~ ambiguous achievements'.
John William Carleton: "If they sold peach melbas and stottie cakes down south they would increase sales even more."
Dooley begins his analysis by investigating the manner in which the crime was embedded in literary representation and social memory beginning with the most famous account penned by William Carleton in his 1833 short story, "Wildgoose Lodge." Dooley discusses how the murders were used by Carleton to align himself with the Protestant Ascendancy literary world.
As for Writing Landscapes, Duffy's love of South Ulster and the writings of William Carleton and Patrick Kavanagh shines through.
Analysis of the representation of the two important novelists in this first volume, Maria Edgeworth and William Carleton, leads to broadly similar conclusions: the latter is cast as the writer of Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, though the Field Day Anthology, gives a fragment of his wonderful novel The Black Prophet, while Edgeworth, it appears, wrote Castle Rackrent, The Absentee and "An Essay On Irish Bulls," though the present anthology has also an extract from her memoir of her father concerning the 1798 rising, to complement the passage from Mary Leadbeater's Annals of Ballitore also included.
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