Strange country : modernity and nationhood in Irish writing since 1790 / Seamus Deane.
Strange country : modernity and nationhood in Irish writing since 1790 / Seamus Deane.
Strange country : modernity and nationhood in Irish writing since 1790 / Seamus Deane.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N820.99415/32
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English
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269 p ; 23 cm.
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.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1997.
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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 domi...
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Strange country : modernity and nationhood in Irish writing since 1790 / Seamus Deane.
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Clarendon lectures in English literature ; 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-258) and index.
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N820.99415/32
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0198183372 (acid-free paper)
9780198183372 (acid-free paper)
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820.99415
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991004798489702626
