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Clarendon Lectures in English Ser.: Strange Country : Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing Since 1790 by Seamus Deane (1999, Uk-Trade Paper)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198184905

ISBN-139780198184904

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Product Key Features

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStrange Country : Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790

Publication Year1999

SubjectEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

FeaturesReprint

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorSeamus Deane

SeriesClarendon Lectures in English Ser.

FormatUk-Trade Paper

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN99-194696

Dewey Edition20

Reviews" Strange Country may be Deane's finest book yet; for anyone interested in Irish literary and cultural studies, it is indispensable."-- MLN, "Strange Countrymay be Deane's finest book yet; for anyone interested in Irish literary and cultural studies, it is indispensable."--MLN, "Strange Country may be Deane's finest book yet; for anyone interested in Irish literary and cultural studies, it is indispensable."--MLN, The demanding subtleties of these lectures provide, in fact, both a case in point and an encouraging augury for the future., In a brilliant analysis of the relationship of land to speech, Deane writes that "soil is what land becomes when it is ideologically constructed as a natal source ..."

Series Volume Number1995

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal820.9/9415

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements1. 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

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SynopsisThis 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., 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, 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 -- take place within the limits imposed by its inheritance., 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., This book traces the emergence of a self-consciously national tradition in Irish writing from the era of the French Revolution and, specifically, from Edmund Burke's counter-revolutionary writings. From Gerald Griffin's The Collegians, to Bram Stoker's Dracula, from James Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy to Synge, Yeats, and Joyce, Irish writing is dominated by a number of inherited issuesthose of national character, of conflict between discipline and excess, of division between the languages of economics and sensibility, of modernity and backwardness. Almost all the activities of Irish print cultureits novels, songs, historical analyses, typefaces, poemstake place within the limits imposed by this complex inheritance. In the process, Ireland created a national literature that was also a colonial one. This was and is an achievement that is only now being fully recognised.