Marjorie Howes

Yeats's Nations

Gender, Class, and Irishness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'An exemplary instance of the mutually enriching engagement between theoretical enquiry and the close reading of literary texts.' Seamus Deane

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521645270
• ISBN-10: 0521645271
• Artikelnr.: 21748910

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. That sweet insinuating feminine voice: hysterics, peasants and the Celtic movement
2. Fair Erin as landlord: femininity and Anglo-Irish politics in 'The Countess Cathleen'
3. When the mob becomes a people: nationalism and occult theatre
4. In the bedroom of the big house: kindred, crisis and Anglo-Irish nationality
5. Desiring women: feminine sexuality and Irish nationality in 'A Woman Young and Old'
6. The rule of kindred: eugenics, Purgatory and Yeats's race philosophy
Bibliography.