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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140881703321

Autore

Wright Julia M

Titolo

A Companion to Irish Literature, 2 Volume Set [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2010

ISBN

1-4443-5076-5

1-78268-595-2

1-283-87019-3

1-4443-2806-9

1-4443-2807-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (997 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; v.139

Disciplina

820.9/9417

820.99415

Soggetti

English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism

English literature --Irish authors --History and criticism

Epic literature, Irish - History and criticism

Epic literature, Irish --History and criticism

Ireland - In literature

Ireland --In literature

Irish literature - History and criticism

Irish literature --History and criticism

Northern Ireland - In literature

Northern Ireland --In literature

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Northern Ireland In literature

Ireland In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

A COMPANION TO IRISH LITERATURE; Part One: The Middle Ages; Part Two: The Early Modern Era; Part Three: The Eighteenth Century; Part Four: The Romantic Period; Part Five: The Rise of Gothic; Part Six: The



Victorian Era; Part Seven: Transitions: Victorian, Revival, Modern; Part Eight: Developments in Genre and Representation after 1930; Part Nine: Debating Social Change after 1960; Part Ten: Contemporary Literature: Print, Stage, and Screen; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day.  Covers an unprecedented historical range of Irish literatureArranged in two volumes covering Irish literature from the medieval period to 1900, and its development through the twentieth century to the present dayPresents a re-visioning of twentieth-century Irish literature and a collection of the most up-to-date scholarship in the field as a wholeIncludes a substant