Bill McCormack

Dissolute Characters

Irish literary history through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats and Bowen

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Produktbeschreibung

Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085635
• ISBN-10: 0719085632
• Artikelnr.: 33159974

Autorenporträt

W. J. Mc Cormack is Keeper of the Edward Worth Library, Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Part One: On Literary History 1. Cashiering the gothic tradition
2. Between Balzac and Yeats 3. Swedenborg's ghost Part Two: Le Fanu and his
Art 4. Mediating the Past: The House by the Church-yard 5. The parochial
and exotic: two tales of 1891 6. Beginning the English novels 7. Characters
beheaded with mottoes 8. Towards a theory of public opinion 9. 'Freezing
brightness' 10 Gottfried Schalcken in history and fiction Part Three: The
Great Enchantment 11. In a Glass Darkly 12. Serialism? 13. Gladstone and
Ascendancy: or, here we go round the upas tree 14. Yeats and gothic
politics Part Four: Elizabeth Bowen and The Heat of the Day 15. Is the
novel properly entitled...? 16. Indefinite articles 17. 'The neutral island
in the heart of man' Epilogue: The Disinherited of Literary History Index