A Companion to Irish Literature

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8809-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 1000 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 2102 g

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day.
* Covers an unprecedented historical range of Irish literature
* Arranged in two volumes covering Irish literature from the medieval period to 1900, and its development through the twentieth century to the present day
* Presents a re-visioning of twentieth-century Irish literature and a collection of the most up-to-date scholarship in the field as a whole
* Includes a substantial number of women writers from the eighteenth century to the present day
* Includes essays on leading contemporary authors, including Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Roddy Doyle, and Emma Donoghue
* Introduces readers to the wide range of current approaches to studying Irish literature

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Julia M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME I
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I: The Middle Ages
Part II: The Early Modern Era
Part III: The Eighteenth Century
Part IV: The Romantic Period
Part V: The Rise of Gothic
Part VI: The Victorian Era

VOLUME TWO
Introduction
Part VII: Transitions: Victorian, Revival, Modern
Part VIII: Developments in Genre and Representation after 1930
Part IX: Debating Social Change after 1960
Part X: Contemporary Literature: Print, Stage, and Screen
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. She is the author of Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (2004) and Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2007), and the editor of Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).