Irish Anglican literature and drama : hybridity and discord /

This book discusses key works by important writers from Church of Ireland backgrounds (from Farquhar and Swift to Beckett and Bardwell), in order to demonstrate that writers from this Irish subculture have a unique socio-political viewpoint which is imperfectly understood. The Anglican Ascendancy wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clare, David, 1971- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Subjects:	English literature > Irish authors > History and criticism. English literature > Anglican authors > History and criticism. Ireland > In literature. English literature > Anglican authors. English literature > Irish authors. Literature. Ireland. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Elizabeth Griffith: Celebrating and Extending the Irish Anglican Dramatic Tradition
3. The Portraits of the English in the Work of Dion Boucicault, Bram Stoker, and Erskine Childers
4. Charlotte Brookes Impact on Ascendancy Women Writers from Maria Edgeworth to Lady Gregory
5. C.S. Lewis and the Irish Literary Canon
6. Gradations of Class Among Irish Anglicans in Leland Bardwells Girl on a Bicycle.