Tinkers : Synge and the cultural history of the Irish traveller /
The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinke...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and continental Rogue Literature that came to be seen as an Irish character alone as English became dominant in Ireland. By the Revival, the tinker represented bohemian, pre-Celtic aboriginality, functioning as the cultural nationalist counter to the Victorian Gypsy mania. Long misunderstood as a portrayal of actual Travellers, J.M. Synge's influential The Tinker's Wedding was pivotal to this 'Irishing' of the tinker, even as it acknowledged that figure. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191570612 0191570613 9780191721670 0191721670 |