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Irish Literature Since 1800 1/e
Norman Vance
Published December 2002 by Longman
Copyright 2002, 312 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0582494788
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Summary

Not an anthology, but the first book of criticism to engage Irish writing across the whole of the twentieth century, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, and including post-Troubles Ulster. KEY TOPICS: The author gives the reader an up-to-date sense of the variety and vitality of Irish writing and indicates some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. The text begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish romanticism, Victorian Ireland, W.B.Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival, new directions in Irish writing after Joyce and the literature of contemporary Ireland, north and south, from 1960 to the present. MARKET: For those interested in Irish literature.
Features

  • Alert to religious and self-consciously post-religious content and context
  • Particularly attentive to the often neglected literature of Victorian Ireland
  • EmphasiSes different cultural traditions and literary preoccupations in the north and south of the island
  • Engages not just with conventionally literary material, but with theological, scientific and political writing, and popular culture
  • Considers influences from English, American, European and classical literatures
Author Bio

N Vance is Professor of English at theUniversity of Sussex and is Co-Director for the Graduate Research Centre in Humanities, also at the University of Sussex.
Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCING IRELAND AND IRISH WRITING
Historical Background
The Irish Language Tradition, and Others
Writing in English before 1800
2. ROMANTICISM IN IRELAND, 1800-1837
Thomas Moore
Romantic Ireland and Romantic Visitors
Maria Edgeworth
Morgan and Maturin
Romanticising Politics and History
3. VICTORIAN IRELAND, 1837-1890
Hunger, Dissent and the Age of Reform
Le Fanu and Ferguson
Journals and Journalism
Lover, Lever, and Irishness for Export
Literature, Violence and Nationalism
Nature and Nature's God
4. THE LITERARY REVIVAL AND OTHER STORIES, 1890-1920
Revival, Religion and Politics
Some Revivalist Writers
Yeats
Other Stories
5. JAMES JOYCE AND MODERN IRELAND, 1920-1960
Joyce
Europeans
Romantics
Realists and Others
6. WRITING AND CONTEMPORARY IRELAND, 1960-2000
Past and Present
Reliving Anglo-Ireland
Rebels and Resentments
Books from Books
Seamus Heaney


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