Irish Writers in the Irish American Press, 1882-1964 /

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"Literary anthologies feature many of Ireland's most well-known authors, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, George Bernard Shaw, Seán O'Casey, James Joyce, and Brendan Behan among them. While a number of notable scholars have contended that middle-class Irish Americans rejected or...

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Main Author: Butler, Stephen G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public opinion.
Irish Americans > Ethnic identity.
Irish Americans > Attitudes.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Americains d'origine irlandaise > Attitudes.
Opinion publique > États-Unis.
Écrivains irlandais > 20e siecle > Opinion publique.
Écrivains irlandais > 19e siecle > Opinion publique.
Litterature anglaise > Auteurs irlandais > Opinion publique.
Irish Americans > Ethnic identity > History.
Irish American journalists > Attitudes.
Public opinion > United States.
Authors, Irish > 20th century > Public opinion.
Authors, Irish > 19th century > Public opinion.
English literature > Irish authors > Public opinion.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • An audience of some importance
  • "Speranza's son"
  • Irish America dismisses Oscar Wilde, 1882
  • The celt in America
  • William Butler Yeats's mission to the new island, 1887-1904
  • "No end of a row"
  • The national theatre in the shadow of Synge, 1903-1909
  • "Weary of misrepresentation"
  • Reconsidering the Irish American reception of the Abbey playwrights, 1911-1913
  • Meet the new gossoon, same as the old gossoon
  • The Abbey playwrights in Irish America, 1931-1939
  • Through a bowl of bitter tears, darkly
  • James Joyce and the Amerirish, 1917-1962
  • Receptions of an Irish rebel
  • Brendan Behan in Irish America, 1960-1964
  • Conclusion.

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