The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

Informationen zum Autor John Wilson Foster is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Klappentext This is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day. Zusammenfassung The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce! George Moore! Maria Edgeworth! Bram Stoker! Flann O'Brien! Samuel Beckett! Lady Morgan! John Banville! and others. This is the perfect overview of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction John Wilson Foster; 1. The novel before 1800 Aileen Douglas; 2. The national tale and allied genres, 1770s-1840 Miranda Burgess; 3. The novel of the big house Vera Kreilkamp; 4. The Gothic novel Siobhan Kilfeather; 5. Catholics and fiction during the Union (1801-1922) James H. Murphy; 6. Irish modernisms, 1880-1930 Adrian Frazier; 7. James Joyce Bruce Stewart; 8. Region, realism, and reaction, 1922-72 Norman Vance; 9. The novel in Irish Alan Titley; 10. Women novelists, 1930s-1960s Ann Owens Weekes; 11. Two post-modern novelists: Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien Terence Brown; 12. Life writing in the twentieth century Elizabeth Grubgeld; 13. The novel and the Northern Troubles Elmer Kennedy-Andrews; 14. Contemporary Irish fiction Eve Patten.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John W. Foster, John Wilson Foster, John Wilson Foster
• Mitarbeit: John Wilson Foster (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 14.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521679961
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67996-1
• Abmessung: 154 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft