Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 / Edition 1

by Seamus Deane

Overview

This book identifies the origin, the development and, ultimately, the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literatures that is both national and colonial. It demonstrates the remarkable relationships between works as diverse as Joyce's Dubliners and Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the worlds of the French Revolution and the Irish famine. Deane also shows how almost all the activities of Irish print culture—novels, songs, typefaces, historical analyses, poems—struggle within the limits imposed by its inheritance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198184904
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/20/1999
Series:	Clarendon Lectures in English , #1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	1590L (what's this?)

About the Author

Seamus Deane is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements1. Phantasmal France, Unreal Ireland: Sobering Reflections2. National Character and the Character of Nations3. Control of Types, Types of Control: the Gothic, the Occult, the Crowd4. Boredom and Apocalypse: A National ParadigmBibliographyIndexAcknowledgements1. Phantasmal France, Unreal Ireland: Sobering Reflections2. National Character and the Character of Nations3. Control of Types, Types of Control: the Gothic, the Occult, the Crowd4. Boredom and Apocalypse: A National ParadigmBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Strange Country may be Deane's finest book yet; for anyone interested in Irish literary and cultural studies, it is indispensable."—MLN

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