Title Strange country : modernity and nationhood in Irish writing since 1790 / Seamus Deane

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages) Series Clarendon lectures in English literature ; 1995 Clarendon lectures in English literature ; 1995 Contents 1. Phantasmal France, Unreal Ireland: Sobering Reflections -- 2. National Character and the Character of Nations -- 3. Control of Types, Types of Control: The Gothic, the Occult, the Crowd -- 4. Boredom and Apocalypse: A National Paradigm Summary This book traces the emergence of a self-consciously national tradition in Irish writing from the era of the French Revolution and, specifically, from Edmund Burke's counter-revolutionary writings. From Gerald Griffin's The Collegians, to Bram Stoker's Dracula, from James Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy to Synge, Yeats, and Joyce, Irish writing is dominated by a number of inherited issues - those of national character, of conflict between discipline and excess, of division between the languages of economics and sensibility, of modernity and backwardness. Almost all the activities of Irish print culture - its novels, songs, historical analyses, typefaces, poems - take place within the limits imposed by this complex inheritance. In the process, Ireland created a national literature that was also a colonial one. This was and is an achievement that is only now being fully recognised Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism National characteristics, Irish, in literature. Literature and history -- Ireland -- History Civilization, Modern, in literature. Nationalism -- Ireland -- History Colonies in literature. English literature -- Irish authors -- 19th century -- Themes, motives English literature -- Irish authors -- 20th century -- Themes, motives Irish in literature. Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland Nationalism in literature. Nationalism in literature. Modernism (Literature) Irish in literature. Civilization, Modern, in literature. Colonies in literature. English literature. English literature -- Irish authors. Intellectual life. Literature. Literature and history. National characteristics, Irish, in literature. Nationalism. Literatur Nationaal bewustzijn. Letterkunde. Engels. Geschichte 1790-1995. SUBJECT Ireland -- Intellectual life Ireland -- In literature Subject Ireland. Irland Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191674389 0191674389 9780198184904 0198184905

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