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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Howes, Marjorie Elizabeth
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.