Irish Writing
Exile and Subversion
Paul Hyland author Neil Sammells editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:25th Nov '91
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Case-studies of major writers such as Swift, Joyce, and Heaney are set alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution and the contribution of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present. The essays explore the recurrent motif of exile and the subversive potential of Irish writing in political, cultural and literary terms. Case-studies of major writers such as Swift, Joyce, and Heaney are set alongside discussions of relatively unexplored writing such as radical pamphleteering in the age of the French Revolution and the contribution of women writers to Nationalistic journalism.
ISBN: 9780333525425
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
256 pages