British and Irish Literature - H - Oxford Bibliographies
Hardy, Thomas
Karin Koehler
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
Thomas HardyIntroductionThomas Hardy was born in Lower Bockhampton, Dorset, in 1840 and, with brief interruptions, continued to live in and around Dor...
Heaney, Seamus
Eugene O'Brien
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Seamus HeaneyIntroductionSeamus Heaney (b. 13 April 1939–d. 30 August 2013), Nobel Prize winner in 1995, is possibly the foremost poet in the English-...
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Chris Stamatakis
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Henry Howard, Earl of SurreyIntroductionEnjoying the dubious honor in ancestral history of being the last person executed during Henry VIII’s reign, H...
Herbert, George
Chauncey Wood
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
George Herbert Introduction A few months after George Herbert’s death in 1633 his friend Nicholas Ferrar took a manuscript of his English poem...
Highlands, The
Murray Pittock
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
The HighlandsIntroductionThe “Highlands” is a key imagined space in British literature, art, and culture. The lasting power of the region—or rather, t...
Hogg, James
Gillian Hughes
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
James HoggIntroductionJames Hogg (b. 1770–d. 1835) was known as the Ettrick Shepherd because of his original occupation as a shepherd and the place of...
Holmes, Sherlock
Camilla Ulleland Hoel
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Sherlock Holmes Introduction Sherlock Holmes is possibly the most immediately recognizable character in all of fiction. This is perhaps due to...
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Emily Merriman
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Gerard Manley HopkinsIntroductionDespite his relatively few poems, almost none published while he was alive, Gerard M. Hopkins (b. 1844–d. 1889) is a ...
Hurd, Richard
Andreas Mueller, Lucy Cooper
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Richard HurdIntroductionRichard Hurd (b. 1720–d. 1808) was a prominent 18th-century Anglican clergyman and influential literary scholar. Hurd’s most p...
Ireland and Memory Studies
Oona Frawley
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Ireland and Memory StudiesIntroductionBecause Irish memory studies takes shape in the context of the international field of memory studies, it cannot ...
Irish Crime Fiction
Brian Cliff
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Irish Crime FictionIntroductionIrish crime fiction is still an emerging field of study. Much of the scholarship concerns Northern Ireland, though that...
Irish Famine, Writing of the
Marguérite Corporaal
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Writing of the Irish Famine Introduction The commemoration in the mid-1990s of Ireland’s Great Irish Famine (also called the Great Hunger) (18...
Irish Gothic Tradition
Jarlath Killeen
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Irish Gothic TraditionIntroduction“The Irish Gothic” or “Irish gothic”? Choice of term here is important, as critical discussion of the appearance of ...
Irish Life Writing
Muireann Leech
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Irish Life WritingIntroductionAlthough the term life writing could encompass autobiographies, biographies, hagiographies, memoirs, diaries, journals, ...
Irish Modernism
Lauren Arrington
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Irish Modernism Introduction Irish modernism is an emerging field in literary studies. Historically, scholars have had a critical reticence to...
Irish Poetry of the First World War
Gerald Dawe
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
Irish Poetry of the First World WarIntroductionIn his poem “On Being Asked for a War Poem” (1915), the Nobel laureate W. B. Yeats (b. 1865–d. 1939) ex...
Irish Short Story, The
Heather Ingman
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
The Irish Short StoryIntroductionThe modernity of the short story as a form is complicated in Ireland by the long-perceived relationship with the trad...
Irish Travel Writing
Raphaël Ingelbien
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Irish Travel WritingIntroduction“Irish travel writing” refers here to travel accounts emanating from Ireland, rather than produced by foreign traveler...
Johnson, B. S.
Julia Jordan
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
B. S. Johnson Introduction B. S. Johnson (b 1933–d. 1973) is an increasingly significant figure in the ongoing reassessment of the British lit...
Johnson, Samuel
Jack Lynch
Subject: British and Irish Literature »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Samuel Johnson Introduction Critics and historians have been fascinated by Samuel Johnson almost since he arrived in London in 1738. He was th...
