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說明 | xvi, 719 p. ; 20 cm |
附註 | Originally published: [Great Britain] : J. Cape, 1995 |
| Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Introduction -- 1. A new England called Ireland? -- Interchapter. Ireland : England's unconsious? -- 2. Oscar Wilde : the artist as Irishman -- 3. John Bull's other islander : Bernard Shaw -- Interchapter. Anglo-Ireland : the woman's part -- 4. Tragedies of manners : Somerville and Ross -- 5. Lady Gregory and the empire boys -- Interchapter. Yeats : looking into the lion's face -- 6. Childhood and Ireland -- 7. The national longing for form -- Interchapter. Return to the source? -- 8. Deanglicization -- 9. Nationality or cosmopolitanism? -- 10. J.M. Synge : remembering the future -- Interchapter. Revolution and war -- 11. Uprising -- 12. The Plebians revise the uprising -- 13. The Great War and Irish memory -- Interchapter. Worlds apart? -- 14. Ireland and the end of empire -- Interchapter. Inventing Irelands -- 15. Writing Ireland, reading England -- 16. Inventing Irelands -- 17. Revolt into style : Yeatsian poetics -- 18. The last Aisling : a vision -- 19. James Joyce and mythic realism -- Interchapter. Sexual politics -- 20. Elizabeth Bowen : the dandy in revolt -- 21. Fathers and sons -- 22. Mothers and daughters -- |
| Interchapter. Protestant revivals -- 23. Protholics and Cathestants -- 24. Saint Joan : Fabian feminist, protestant mystic -- 25. The winding stair -- 26. Religious writing : Beckett and others -- Interchapter. Underdevelopment -- 27. The periphery and the centre -- 28. Flann O'Brien, Myles, and the poor mouth -- 29. The empire writes back : Brendan Behan -- 30. Beckett's texts of laughter and forgetting -- 31. Post-colonial Ireland : "a quaking sod" -- Interchapter. Recovery and renewal -- 32. Under pressure : the writer and society 1960-90 -- 33. Friel translating -- 34. Translating tradition -- Reinventing Ireland -- 35. Imaging Irish studies |
主題 | English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism |
| English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism |
| Irish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism |
| National characteristics, Irish, in literature |
| Nationalism -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century |
| Ireland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century |
| Nationalism in literature |
ISBN/ISSN | 009958221X (pbk.) |