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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 issues - those 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 culture - its novels, songs, historical analyses, typefaces, poems - take 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.
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English literature, History and criticism, History, Literature and history, Intellectual life, Colonies in literature, In literature, Nationalism, National characteristics, Irish, in literature, Irish authors, Civilization, Modern, in literature, English literature, irish authors, history and criticism, English literature (collections), 19th century, English literature (collections), 20th century, National characteristics, irish, Irish in literature, Nationalism, ireland, Irish literature, history and criticism, Politics in literature, Nationalism in literaturePlaces
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Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature 1995)
April 23, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
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0198184905 9780198184904
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Strange country: modernity and nationhood in Irish writing since 1790
1997, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
in English
0198183372 9780198183372
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