Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940: Volume 4

Author:   Marjorie Elizabeth Howes (Boston College, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   396
Publication Date:   12 March 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Marjorie Elizabeth Howes (Boston College, Massachusetts)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9781108480451


ISBN 10:   1108480454
Pages:   396
Publication Date:   12 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Marjorie Howes; Part I. Revisionary Foundations: 2. The apotheosis of the vernacular: dialects and the Irish revival Brian Ó'Conchubhair; 3. Origins of modern Irish poetry, 1880–1922 Alex Davis; 4. Theatrical Ireland: new routes from the Abbey Theatre to the Gate Theatre Paige Reynolds; 5. Recovery and the ascendancy novel 1880–1932 Vera Kreilkamp; Part II. Revoutionary Forms: 6. Print culture landscapes 1880–1922 Niall Carson; 7. Revolutionary lives in the rearview mirror: memoir and autobiography Karen Steele; 8. The Hugh Lane controversy and the Irish revival Lucy McDiarmid; 9. New Irish women and new women's writing Tina O'Toole; Part III. Major Figures in Transition: 10. Aging Yeats: from fascism to disability Joseph Valente; 11. 'I myself delight in Miss Edgeworth's novels': gender, power, and the domestic in Lady Gregory's work Lauren Arrington; 12. Synge and disappearing Ireland Gregory Castle; 13. Drumcondra modernism: Joyce's suburban aesthetic Enda Duffy; 14. London Irish: Wilde, Shaw and Yeats Nicholas Grene; Part IV. Aftermaths and Outcomes: 15. Reimagining realism in post-independence Irish writing Mark Quigley; 16. The free state of poetry Lucy Collins; 17. Live wires and dead noise: revolutionary communications Emily C. Bloom; 18. The dead, the undead, and the half-alive: the transition from narrative plot to formal trope in late modern Irish writing Clair Wills; Part V. Frameworks in Transition: 19. Irish literary criticism during the revival Gerry Smyth; 20. Retrospective readings: the rise of global Irish studies Peter Kuch.

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'... a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times


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Marjorie Elizabeth Howes is an Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies at Boston College, Massachusetts. She is the author of Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness (Cambridge, 1996), and winner of the Michael J. Durkan Prize for the year's best book in literary as well as cultural studies awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Howes also authored Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History (2006) and was a co-editor for three other books, including The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (Cambridge, 2006). From 2003–10, she was also the co-director of the Irish Studies Program at Boston College.

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