A history of the Irish novel /

"While some literary critics have traced the origins of the novel back to ancient Greece, the modern novel as an access to the narratives of bourgeois modernity emerged into Western culture in the late seventeenth century. The struggle of that class toward definition and the striving to articul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hand, Derek
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Nervo, Amado
English fiction > Irish authors > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Ireland > History.
Literature and history > Ireland.
National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
Roman anglais > Auteurs irlandais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Irlande > Histoire.
Littérature et histoire > Irlande.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction > Irish authors.
Literature.
Literature and history.
Literature and society.
Englisch
Romans.
Engels.
Engelska romaner > historia.
Litteratur och samhälle.
Irland > i litteraturen.
Ireland > In literature.
Irlande > Dans la littérature.
Ireland.
Irland
Ierland.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a history of the Irish novel: 1665-2010
  • Interchapter: Virtue Rewarded, or The Irish Princess: burgeoning silence and the new novel form in Ireland
  • 1. Beginnings and endings: writing from the margins, 1665-1800
  • Interchapter: beyond history: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent
  • 2. Speak not my name or, the wings of Minerva: Irish fiction, 1800-1891
  • Interchapter: Edith Somerville and Martin Ross's The Real Charlotte: the blooming menagerie
  • 3. Living in a time of epic: the Irish novel and literary revival and revolution, 1891-1922
  • Interchapter: James Joyce's Ulysses: choosing life
  • 4. Irish independence and the bureaucratic imagination: 1922-1939
  • Interchapter: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and the art of betrayal
  • 5. Enervated island: isolated Ireland? 1940-1960
  • Interchapter: John Banville's Doctor Copernicus: a revolution in the head
  • 6. The struggle of making it new, 1960-1979
  • Interchapter: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and the rebel act of interpretation
  • 7. Brave new worlds: Celtic tigers and moving statues: 1979 to the present day
  • Interchapter: John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun: saying the very last things
  • Conclusion: the future of the Irish novel in the global literary marketplace
  • Bibliography.

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