Description
This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed.
It begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish romanticism, Victorian Ireland, W.B.Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival, new directions in Irish writing after Joyce and the literature of contemporary Ireland, north and south, from 1960 to the present.
About the Author
N Vance is Professor of English at theUniversity of Sussex and is Co-Director for the Graduate Research Centre in Humanities, also at the University of Sussex.
Reviews
'..the broadening of intellectual influences to extend to European and Atlantic contexts is an especially welcome contribution.'
Nessa Cronin, Da Yeh University, Taiwan, Irish Studies Review, Vol 11, No 2, 2003.
Book Information
ISBN 9780582494787
Author Norman Vance
Format Paperback
Page Count 312
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g
