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Nietzsche and Irish Modernism demonstrates how the ideas of the controversial German philosopher played a crucial role in the emergence and evolution of a distinctly Irish brand of modernist culture. Making an essential new contribution to the history of modernism, the book traces the circulation of these ideas through the writings of George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce, as well as through minor works of literature, magazine articles, newspaper debates, public lectures, and private correspondence. These materials reveal a response to Nietzsche that created abiding tensions between Irish cultural production and reigning religious and nationalist orthodoxies, during an anxious period of Home Rule agitation, world war, revolution, civil war, and state building. With its wealth of detail, the book greatly enriches our understanding of modernist culture as a site of convergence between art and politics, indigenous concerns and foreign perspectives.

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‘Compelling and fresh, Patrick Bixby’s cultural history shows how Irish modernists summoned Nietzsche to envision bold political change and invent revolutionary aesthetic forms. Whether it’s the surprising Shaw or the underappreciated George Eagerton, Tom Kettle in war archives or Joyce and Yeats anew, you’ll appreciate seeing what makes Irish modernism distinct.’ James McNaughton, The University of Alabama -- .

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Patrick Bixby is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University.

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