Modern Irish literature : sources and founders / Vivian Mercier ; edited and presented by Eilís Dil...
Modern Irish literature : sources and founders / Vivian Mercier ; edited and presented by Eilís Dil...
Modern Irish literature : sources and founders / Vivian Mercier ; edited and presented by Eilís Dillon.
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Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Date
1994.
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G 2013/6646
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvii, 381 p. ; 25 cm.
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 Craf...
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Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1994.
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Summary
Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders marks the culmination of the lifetime interest of the distinguished scholar Vivian Mercier (1919-89) in the influence of Gaelic literature on modern Irish writing. Building on the insights developed in his classic The Irish Comic Tradition, in which he traced the continuity of attitudes and subjects of...
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Modern Irish literature : sources and founders / Vivian Mercier ; edited and presented by Eilís Dillon.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-360) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF N820.99415/24.
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G 2013/6646
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74VKJ2eLqjPX
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0198120745 :
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DDC
820.99415
MMS ID
991022044869702626
