03231nam 2200529 450 991079485960332120230725024351.00-19-161967-1(CKB)4330000000037731(MiAaPQ)EBC5746757(MiAaPQ)EBC1581030(Au-PeEL)EBL1581030(OCoLC)958583284(EXLCZ)99433000000003773120190716d2011 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWords alone Yeats and his inheritance /R.F. FosterOxford :Oxford University Press,[2011]©20111 online resource (xix, 236 pages) illustrations0-19-959216-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-219) and index.National tales and national futures in Ireland and Scotland after 1800 -- The first Romantics : young Irelands between Catholic emancipation and the famine -- Lost in the big house : Anglo-Irishry and the uses of the supernatural -- Oisin comes home : Yeats as inheritor.W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to the rich seed-bed of nineteenth-century Irish writing, Words Alone charts some of the influences, including romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemicof the Young Ireland movement, the occult and supernatural novels of Sheridan LeFanu, William Carleton's 'peasant fictions', and fairy-lore and folktale collectors that created the unique and powerful Yeatsian voice of the decade from 1885 to 1895. As well as placing these literary movements in a vividcontemporary context of politics, polemic and social tension, Foster discusses recent critical and interpretive approaches to these phenomena. He shows that the use Yeats made of his predecessors during his apprenticeship, and the part that a self-conscious use of Irish literary tradition played in the construction of his path-breaking early work as he attempted to 'hammer his thoughts into a unity' made him an inheritor as much as an inventor.English literatureIrish authorsHistory and criticismEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)English literatureIrish influencesIrelandCivilization19th centuryEnglish literatureIrish authorsHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)English literatureIrish influences.821.8HL 4945rvkFoster R. F(Robert Fitzroy),1949-1580014MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794859603321Words alone3860559UNINA