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Author Boynton, T. J., 1980-

Title Against the Despotism of Fact : Modernism, Capitalism, and the Irish Celt / T.J. Boynton
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Series SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Contents Introduction: Celticism, Capitalism, and Transnational Modernism -- British Celticism. Matthew Arnold, the Ontology of English Capitalism, and the Rebirth of Celtic Tragedy -- The Uses of Irishness, I: British Imperial-Romantic Celticism -- The Uses of Irishness, II: British Modernist Celticism -- Irish Celticism. "A Nation of Imitators": Anti-Capitalisms of the Irish Revival, 1885-1910 -- "In Front of the Cracked Looking Glass": Revivalist Modernism, the Irish Female Consumer, and the Colonial Spectacle -- The Bathetic Muse: Irish Late Modernism -- Conclusion: Post-Celticism
Summary "First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 01, 2021)
Subject English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland
Celts in literature.
Capitalism in literature.
National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
Nationalism and literature -- Ireland
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Capitalism in literature
Celts in literature
English literature
English literature -- Irish authors
Modernism (Literature)
National characteristics, Irish, in literature
Nationalism and literature
Ireland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1438481829
9781438481821