Description
An innovative volume offering a remapping of a crucial period in Irish literary history based on contemporary developments in scholarship.
About the Author
Marjorie Elizabeth Howes is an Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies at Boston College, Massachusetts. She is the author of Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness (Cambridge, 1996), and winner of the Michael J. Durkan Prize for the year's best book in literary as well as cultural studies awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Howes also authored Colonial Crossings: Figures in Irish Literary History (2006) and was a co-editor for three other books, including The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats (Cambridge, 2006). From 2003-10, she was also the co-director of the Irish Studies Program at Boston College.
Reviews
'... a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times
'The overarching achievements of this collection are its extensions of the scope for critical intervention into the years during and immediately succeeding the Revival. The collection also greatly bene!ts from its inclusion of criticism on overlooked writers such as George Egerton, Katherine Cecil Thurston, and George Moore alongside regular stalwarts such as Joyce, Yeats, and Bowen. Eclectic, necessarily diverse, and rigorous, Irish Literature in Transition, 1880-1940 is an important investigation into two periods of distinctive artistic and critical creativity that manages to seamlessly survey the development of cultural discourses and identify the cultural movements that made them possible.' Loic Wright, Irish Studies Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781108480451
Author Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
Format Hardback
Page Count 396
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 690g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 26mm