Author : Thomas Flanagan
Publisher : New York, Columbia U.P
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Examines the works and careers of the principal Irish novelists of the early 19th century, including; Edgeworth, Morgan, Banim, Griffin and Carleton. Also looks at the history of the time in terms of political, social, and religious aspects.
Author : Thomas J. B. Flanagan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release :
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Flanagan
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 1959
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Barry Sloan
Publisher : Gerrards Cross, Bucks. : C. Smythe ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
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Author : Norman Vance
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317870492
This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. It 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.
Author : John Wilson Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982788X
The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual works, accounts of important novelists, and histories of sub-genres and allied narrative forms, establishing significant social and political contexts for dozens of novels. The varied perspectives and emphases by more than a dozen critics and literary historians ensure that the Irish novel receives due tribute for its colour, variety and linguistic verve. Each chapter features recommended further reading. This is the perfect overview for students of the Irish novel from the romances of the seventeenth century to the present day.
Author : James H. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0199596999
This text is a comprehensive study of fiction written by Irish authors during the Victorian age. James Murphy analyses the development of the novel in Ireland and examines the work of authors including William Carleton, Charles Lever, Somerville and Ross, and Bram Stoker in the social and literary contexts of their times.
Author : Derek Hand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139500635
Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and John McGahern have demonstrated the extraordinary intellectual range, thematic complexity and stylistic innovation of Irish fiction. Derek Hand provides a remarkably detailed picture of the Irish novel's emergence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows the story of the genre is the story of Ireland's troubled relationship to modernisation. The first critical synthesis of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day, this is a major book for the field, and the first to thematically, theoretically and contextually chart its development. It is an essential, entertaining and highly original guide to the history of the Irish novel.
Author : Claire Connolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139503227
Claire Connolly offers a cultural history of the Irish novel in the period between the radical decade of the 1790s and the gaining of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. These decades saw the emergence of a group of talented Irish writers who developed and advanced such innovative forms as the national tale and the historical novel: fictions that took Ireland as their topic and setting and which often imagined its history via domestic plots that addressed wider issues of dispossession and inheritance. Their openness to contemporary politics, as well as to recent historiography, antiquarian scholarship, poetry, song, plays and memoirs, produced a series of notable fictions; marked most of all by their ability to fashion from these resources a new vocabulary of cultural identity. This book extends and enriches the current understanding of Irish Romanticism, blending sympathetic textual analysis of the fiction with careful historical contextualization.
Author : Emer Nolan
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815631200
This groundbreaking book explores the role 19th century Irish Catholic authors played in forging the creation of modern Irish literature. As such it offers a unique tour of Ireland’s literary landscape, from early origins during the Catholic political resurgence of the 1820s to the transformative zenith wrought by James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922. Emer Nolan observes that contemporary Irish literature is steeped in the ambitions and internal conflicts of a previously captive Irish Catholic culture that came into its own with the narrative art form. He revisits, with keen insights, the prescient and influential songs, poems, and prose of Thomas Moore. He also points out that Moore’s wildly successful work helped create an audience for authors to come, i.e. John and Michael Banim, William Carleton and the popular novelists Gerald Griffin and Charles Kickham. An innovative aspect of this study is the author’s exploration of the relationship between James Joyce and Irish culture and his nineteenth-century Irish Catholic predecessors and their political and national passions. It is, in effect, a telling look at the future history of Irish fiction.
