Susan Cannon Harris

Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions (eBook, ePUB)

Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reveals the untold story of Irish drama's engagement with modernity's sexual and social revolutionsThe first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s. Drawing on original archival research, the study reconstructs the engagement of Yeats, Shaw, Wilde, Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett with socialists and sexual radicals like Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Florence Farr, Bertolt Brecht, and Lorraine Hansberry. Key FeaturesArgues for and models a way of reconciling Marxist politics with identity politics, instead of privileging one over the otherOffers the first sustained investigation of Irish drama's engagement with left culture in Europe and North AmericaOffers fresh readings of canonical plays by major authors while elaborating a new and generative argument about Ireland's contribution to modern drama and literary modernismUses hard-to-find archival sources to recover and reinterpret crucial but forgotten and/or misunderstood moments in theater history and in the history of the cultural leftBrings Marxist and feminist/queer theoretical concerns together to produce a nuanced and revealing account of the interaction between sexual and social politics in the first half of the twentieth century

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474424486
• Artikelnr.: 50402872

Autorenporträt

Susan Cannon Harris is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her book Gender and Modern Irish Drama (IUP, 2002) was awarded the Donald Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book and the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Harris has published on eighteenth century Irish theater, contemporary Irish drama, and modern British fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Desiring Women: Irish Playwrights
New Women
and Queer Socialism
1892-1894 2. Arrested Development: Utopian Desires
Designs
and Deferrals in Man and Superman and John Bull's Other Island 3. We'll Keep The Red Flag Flying Here: Syndicalism
Jim Larkin
and Irish Masculinity at the Abbey Theatre
1911-1919 4. Mobilising Maurya: J. M. Synge
Bertolt Brecht
and the Revolutionary Mother 5. The Flaming Sunflower: The Soviet Union and Sean O'Casey's Post-Realism Epilogue: What The Irish Left: Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window Works Cited