There Were Heart-Mysteries There”
An Interview with Charles Fanning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11272248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Silas Rogers (St. Thomas University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-755X • E-ISSN: 1946-3170 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/melus/mlz040 |
| OpenAlex | W2984160884 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Charles Fanning is a founding figure in the study of Irish American literature. In this interview, Fanning discusses the backgrounds of his scholarly career and the emergence of Irish American literature as a subspecialty. He notes his indebtedness to his mentor John V. Kelleher. Fanning discusses his research career, taking note of a number of the authors and writings he has retrieved and analyzed; prominent among these are the “Mr. Dooley” columns of the Chicago humorist Finley Peter Dunne. Fanning’s indisputable masterwork is The Irish Voice in America: Irish-American Fiction from the 1760s to the 1980s (1991), which he discusses here. He comments on the relevance of regions, gender, and religion in Irish American fiction. He offers extensive remarks on the realist novelist James T. Farrell, whom Fanning places at the center of the twentieth-century tradition. He makes observations on the current status of Irish American ethnicity and its literary expression. The interview concludes with Fanning discussing his writings since retirement, which include a memoir and a novel-in-progress.
American literature · Art · Art history · Irish · Literature · Memoir · Political science · Relevance (law) · Classics · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy
Emigrants and exiles
The Exiles of Erin
The Exiles of Erin
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan
The Irish Way
Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley
Fiction with a Parochial Purpose
The Irish in Philadelphia
The Irish in Philadelphia, Ten Generations of Urban Experience
The Irish in Chicago
The Interpretation of Cultures
How Late It Was, How Late
The Irish Voice in America
Fiction with a Parochial Purpose Social Uses of American Catholic Literature, 1884-1900
The American Irish, a Political and Social Portrait
Boston Priests 1848-1910, a Study of Social and Intellectual Change
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |