Anglo-Irish : the literary imagination in a hyphenated culture / Julian Moynahan
1994, 1st edition. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #323933
ISBN: 0691037574
Physical description: xiii, 288 pages; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277) and index. Contents: 1. Prologue: "Irish enough" -- 2. Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849): origination and a checklist -- 3. William Carleton (1794-1869): the native informer -- 4. Declensions of Anglo-Irish history: the Act of union to the encumbered Estates acts of 1848-49 ... with a glance at a singular heroine -- 5. Charles Lever (1806-72): The Anglo-Irish writer as diplomatic absentee, with a glance at John Banim -- 6. The politics of Anglo-Irish Gothic: Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, and the return of the repressed -- 7. History again: the era of Parnell, myths and realities -- 8. Spinsters Ball: George Moore and the land agitation -- 9. "The strain of the double loyalty": Edith Somerville and Martin Ross -- 10. W.B. Yeats and the end of Anglo-Irish literature -- 11. After the end: the Anglo-Irish postmortem. Subjects: English literature Irish authors History and criticism. British Ireland. English literature Irish authors. Intellectual life. Ireland Intellectual life 19th century. Genre: Bibliography. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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