Boston College Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente (University of Buffalo) have co-edited Irish Revival: A Complex Vision (Syracuse University Press, 2023), a collection of essays offering a nuanced reinterpretation of the Irish Revival utilizing the theoretical concept of “complexity,” recently developed in the information and biological sciences. From the publisher: “Taken as a whole, these essays show that the Revival’s various components operated as parts of a network but without any overarching aim or authority. [The volume’s] contributors examine how relationships among the Revival’s individual parts involved conflict and cooperation, difference and similarity, continuity and disruption. It is this combination of convergence without unifying purpose and divergence within a broad but flexible coherence that Valente and Howes capture by reinterpreting the Revival through complexity theory.” Howes is the author of Yeats’s Nation: Gender, Class, and Irishness and Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History.