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1 online resource (x, 341 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"While some literary critics have traced the origins of the novel back to ancient Greece, the modern novel as an access to the narratives of bourgeois modernity emerged into Western culture in the late seventeenth century. The struggle of that class toward definition and the striving to articulate its character is central to the novel and the stories it tells. Its novelty is found in a formlessness that nonetheless aspires to some idea of order and unity. Indeed, the energies of the early modern novel form can be discerned in its constant assertion of narratives that enact that search for completeness while also allowing for a kind of mourning for the security that older, traditional forms and stories allowed. Thus, novelists, then as now, revel in the possibilities that formal innovation permits while their characters find themselves forced to acknowledge the newness of their world and their experiences in that world"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-334) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: a history of the Irish novel: 1665-2010 -- Interchapter: Virtue Rewarded, or The Irish Princess: burgeoning silence and the new novel form in Ireland -- 1. Beginnings and endings: writing from the margins, 1665-1800 -- Interchapter: beyond history: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent -- 2. Speak not my name or, the wings of Minerva: Irish fiction, 1800-1891 -- Interchapter: Edith Somerville and Martin Ross's The Real Charlotte: the blooming menagerie -- 3. Living in a time of epic: the Irish novel and literary revival and revolution, 1891-1922 -- Interchapter: James Joyce's Ulysses: choosing life -- 4. Irish independence and the bureaucratic imagination: 1922-1939 -- Interchapter: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and the art of betrayal -- 5. Enervated island: isolated Ireland? 1940-1960 -- Interchapter: John Banville's Doctor Copernicus: a revolution in the head -- 6. The struggle of making it new, 1960-1979 -- Interchapter: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and the rebel act of interpretation -- 7. Brave new worlds: Celtic tigers and moving statues: 1979 to the present day -- Interchapter: John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun: saying the very last things -- Conclusion: the future of the Irish novel in the global literary marketplace -- Bibliography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English fiction -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Irish authors. |
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Literature and society -- Ireland -- History.
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Literature and society. |
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Ireland. |
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History. |
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Literature and history -- Ireland.
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Literature and history. |
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National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
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National characteristics, Irish, in literature. |
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Ireland -- In literature.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hand, Derek. History of the Irish novel. Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, ©2011 9780521855402 (DLC) 2010032792 (OCoLC)660087671 |
| ISBN |
9781139042543 (electronic book) |
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1139042548 (electronic book) |
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1139041002 (electronic book) |
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9781139041003 (electronic book) |
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9780511975615 (electronic book) |
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0511975619 (electronic book) |
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9780521855402 |
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0521855403 |
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