Beschreibung:
An innovative volume offering a remapping of a crucial period in Irish literary history based on contemporary developments in scholarship.
1. Introduction Marjorie Howes; Part I. Revisionary Foundations: 2. The apotheosis of the vernacular: dialects and the Irish revival Brian Ó'Conchubhair; 3. Origins of modern Irish poetry, 1880¿1922 Alex Davis; 4. Theatrical Ireland: new routes from the Abbey Theatre to the Gate Theatre Paige Reynolds; 5. Recovery and the ascendancy novel 1880¿1932 Vera Kreilkamp; Part II. Revoutionary Forms: 6. Print culture landscapes 1880¿1922 Niall Carson; 7. Revolutionary lives in the rearview mirror: memoir and autobiography Karen Steele; 8. The Hugh Lane controversy and the Irish revival Lucy McDiarmid; 9. New Irish women and new women's writing Tina O'Toole; Part III. Major Figures in Transition: 10. Aging Yeats: from fascism to disability Joseph Valente; 11. 'I myself delight in Miss Edgeworth's novels': gender, power, and the domestic in Lady Gregory's work Lauren Arrington; 12. Synge and disappearing Ireland Gregory Castle; 13. Drumcondra modernism: Joyce's suburban aesthetic Enda Duffy; 14. London Irish: Wilde, Shaw and Yeats Nicholas Grene; Part IV. Aftermaths and Outcomes: 15. Reimagining realism in post-independence Irish writing Mark Quigley; 16. The free state of poetry Lucy Collins; 17. Live wires and dead noise: revolutionary communications Emily C. Bloom; 18. The dead, the undead, and the half-alive: the transition from narrative plot to formal trope in late modern Irish writing Clair Wills; Part V. Frameworks in Transition: 19. Irish literary criticism during the revival Gerry Smyth; 20. Retrospective readings: the rise of global Irish studies Peter Kuch.