Synopses & Reviews
This book identifies the origin, the development and, ultimately, the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literatures that is both national and colonial. It demonstrates the remarkable relationships between works as diverse as Joyce's Dubliners and Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the worlds of the French Revolution and the Irish famine. Deane also shows how almost all the activities of Irish print culture--novels, songs, typefaces, historical analyses, poems--struggle within the limits imposed by its inheritance.
Review
"Strange Country may be Deane's finest book yet; for anyone interested in Irish literary and cultural studies, it is indispensable."--MLN
About the Author
Seamus Deane is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
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
Bibliography
Index