Strange country : modernity and nationhood in Irish writing since 1790 /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Clarendon lectures in English literature ;
1995. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Phantasmal France, Unreal Ireland: Sobering Reflections
- 2. National Character and the Character of Nations
- 3. Control of Types, Types of Control: The Gothic, the Occult, the Crowd
- 4. Boredom and Apocalypse: A National Paradigm.