Strange Country
Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature 1995)
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Word Count
70,000 words, Guess
Page Count
280 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7397342M
- ISBN-139780198184904
- ISBN-100198184905
- OCLC Control Number34958706
- OCLC Control Numberstrangecountrymo0000dean
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number96024312
- Goodreads813901
- LibraryThing1413778
Classifications
- LCC
- DDC820.9/9415
- LCCPR8718 .D44 1997
Description
This book traces the emergence of a self-consciously national tradition in Irish writing from the era of the French Revolution and, specifically, from Edmund Burke's counter-revolutionary writings. From Gerald Griffin's The Collegians, to Bram Stoker's Dracula, from James Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy to Synge, Yeats, and Joyce, Irish writing is dominated by a number of inherited issues - those of national character, of conflict between discipline and excess, of division between the languages of economics and sensibility, of modernity and backwardness. Almost all the activities of Irish print culture - its novels, songs, historical analyses, typefaces, poems - take place within the limits imposed by this complex inheritance. In the process, Ireland created a national literature that was also a colonial one. This was and is an achievement that is only now being fully recognised.
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