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About the Author
Eve Patten is Professor in the School of English at Trinity College, Dublin. A graduate of Oxford University, she worked for the British Council in Eastern Europe before taking up a lectureship at Trinity in the mid-1990s. She has published widely on Irish and British writing of the modern period, and teaches on nineteenth-century realist fiction, the modern English novel, and Irish cultural and literary history. She was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2006, and in 2020 she was appointed as Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
Reviews
Ireland, Revolution and the English Modernist Imagination is a fascinating and engaging read. Patten explores and exposes the contradictory position of the Irish in English modernist literature as at once both peripheral and central. * Irish Times *
...Acutely observed study of a topic long overdue critical treatment, English literary responses to the Irish revolution and cultural revival. Written with stylistic brio and drawing on extensive research in primary, secondary, and archival sources. * Luke Gibbons, Dublin Review of Books *
In this engaging, impeccably researched, and well-written book, Eve Patten recalibrates our critical vision to consider how Ireland has been imagined by English modernists to address the state of England and to push their own country, variously, in more liberal and more conservative directions. * Brad Kent, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 45: 1 *
Those working in both Irish studies and in Anglo-American modernism more broadly will find much to appreciate, then, in this compelling, well-researched, and engagingly written work. * Paul Stasi, Studies in the Novel *
Patten's argument has an accumulative force, making a convincing case for how certain English modernists engaged with and depicted Ireland in their fiction to express their hopes for their own country, thereby producing a book that should be of interest to those working in both Irish and Modernist Studies. * Brad Kent, Universite Laval *
Compelling for its innovative research, impressive scope and analytical richness, this illuminating book will certainly seed other studies.... [...]... It is much to the credit of Patten's resonant work that it testifies to the importance of reading Irish, English, and imperial literatures in the modernist era not as separate cordoned off domains but in prismatic relationship to each other. * Joe Cleary, Irish University Review, 53.2 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198869160
Author Eve Patten
Format Hardback
Page Count 242
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 518g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 165mm * 180mm