Clair Wills

The Best Are Leaving

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Produktbeschreibung

Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is a study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and of Irish immigrants in Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781107048409
• ISBN-10: 1107048400
• Artikelnr.: 41611244

Autorenporträt

Clair Wills is Professor of Irish Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Previous publications include That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland during the Second World War (2007) and Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The best are leaving: fitness, marriage, and the crisis of the national family
2. Pink witch: women, modernity, and urbanisation
3. British paddies: realism and the Irish immigrant
4. The vanishing Irish: assimilation, ethnicisation, and literary caricature
5. Clay is the flesh: looking at manual labour.