Title Ascendancy and tradition in Anglo-Irish literary history from 1789 to 1939 / W.J. McCormack

Published Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1985

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Description 1 online resource (x, 423 pages) Contents Introduction: Against definitions -- 1. Romantic union: Wordsworth, Ireland, and Reflections on the revolution in France -- 2. Edmund Burke and the imagination of history -- 3. Castle Rackrent -- 4. The Absentee -- 5. Mid-century perspectives -- 6. The question of Celticism -- 7. James Joyce: Bás Nó Beatha -- 8. W.B. Yeats: tow approaches -- 9. The invention of tradition -- 10. On 'purgatory' Summary This study uncovers the bourgeois origins of Ascendancy ideology in the alarm of the 1790s, and traces its cultural significance by means of a series of detailed critiques of central texts and concepts Analysis English literature Irish writers, 1789-1939 - Critical studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism English literature. English literature -- Irish authors. Intellectual life. Literature. SUBJECT Ireland -- Intellectual life Ireland -- In literature Subject Ireland. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191671630 0191671630

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