The Critical Reception of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing
Anathemata, beatification or canonization lurking in a biographical note
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Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Anthologies, Editorial project, Critical reception, Irish StudiesAbstract
A veritable editorial event, when the three-volume Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing was published in 1991 it extensively reviewed in wide-circulation periodicals and journals in Irelands, the UK, and the US. Its aims are inseparable from the political tensions over the political status of Northern Ireland before the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and volumes I to III were subject to ample scrutiny by journalists and academics. The reviews deal with matters dear to textual and editorial studies but that rarely feature in the popular press, including selection bias, the authority of the critical apparatus, editorial discourse, and materiality. The reaction to the original 1990s publication was directly responsible for the commission of additional volumes that came out in 2002 and reflects changes in how the role of the editorial project is perceived.
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