Modern Irish literature : sources and founders / Vivian Mercier ; edited and presented by Eili?s Dillon
Oxford Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994. 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #323563
ISBN: 0198120745
Physical description: xvii, 381 pages; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-360) and index. Contents: Introduction / Declan Kiberd -- 1. The Rediscovery of the Gaelic Past -- 2. Irish Writers and English Readers: Literature and Politics 1798-1845 -- 3. Evangelical Revival in the Church of Ireland, 1800-69 -- 4. The Revival Begins -- 5. Bernard Shaw: Irish International -- 6. W.B. Yeats: Master Craftsman -- 7. John Millington Synge: Devil or Saint? -- 8. James Joyce: Creating Ulysses -- 9. 'All That Fall': Samuel Beckett and the Bible -- 10. European-Irish Literary Connections in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix: Published Works of Vivian Mercier. Subjects: English literature Irish authors History and criticism. English literature Irish authors. Intellectual life. Literature. Ireland Intellectual life 20th century. English literature. Irish writers. Genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Price: €125.00