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Irish Literature Since 1800 (Longman Literature in English Series)
Irish Literature Since 1800 - Longman Literature in English Series Author:Norman Vance Not an anthology, but the first book of criticism to engage Irish writing across the whole of the twentieth century, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, and including post-Troubles Ulster. The author gives the reader an up-to-date sense of the variety and vitality of Irish writing and indicates some of the ways in which it has... more » been described and discussed. The text begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish romanticism, Victorian Ireland, W.B.Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival, new directions in Irish writing after Joyce and the literature of contemporary Ireland, north and south, from 1960 to the present. For those interested in Irish literature.« less