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Yeats's nations : gender, class, and Irishness /
"Yeats, it has been claimed, invented a country and called it Ireland. His plays, poetry and prose record his life-long commitment to establishing new forms of individual and collective identity. Marjorie Howes's study is the first sustained attempt to examine Yeats's invention of Iri...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. That sweet insinuating feminine voice: hysterics, peasants, and the Celtic movement
- 2. Fair Erin as landlord: femininity and Anglo-Irish politics in The Countess Cathleen
- 3. When the mob becomes a people: nationalism and occult theatre
- 4. In the bedroom of the Big House: kindred, crisis, and Anglo-Irish nationality
- 5. Desiring women: feminine sexuality and Irish nationality in "A Woman Young and Old"
- 6. The rule of kindred: eugenics, Purgatory, and Yeats's race philosophy.