Bill McCormack

Dissolute Characters (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Irish literature in English commands world-wide respect, but it is rarely discussed in a comparative light. This study of the making and unmaking of character commences with Balzac's impact on nineteenth-century Irish fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu links Balzac and Swedenborg to Yeats, and anticipates Elizabeth Bowen's deployment of ghost story conventions in the 1940s.

Through painterly imagery, biblical quotation and the distortion of proper names, Le Fanu shows character to be a self-consuming project. Yeats's Parnell emerges as a modernist gothic hero of the 1930s. Bowen's The heat of the day anatomises the problems of identity, bequeathed by Yeats.

Radically revising the idea of a gothic tradition and traversing two centuries of Irish literary history, Dissolute characters gives a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526125538
• Artikelnr.: 60365635

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