Irish Literature Since 1800

Vance moves from a brief survey of Irish literature prior to 1800 onto the contexts of Irish writing since 1800 covering, romanticism, the Victorian period, the Literary Revival and contemporary Irish writing. He also looks at Ireland in Europe and the Atlantic world, Irish cultural debates and current affairs as contexts for recent and contemporary literature.

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Norman Vance

Summary

Vance moves from a brief survey of Irish literature prior to 1800 onto the contexts of Irish writing since 1800 covering, romanticism, the Victorian period, the Literary Revival and contemporary Irish writing. He also looks at Ireland in Europe and the Atlantic world, Irish cultural debates and current affairs as contexts for recent and contemporary literature.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Vance, Vance Norman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 18.08.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781138153172
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15317-2
• Pages: 312
• Series: Longman Literature in English Series
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, postcolonial literary studies, comparative Celtic literature, twentieth-century Irish authors, Anglo-Irish literary history, modern Irish writing scholarship, Irish romanticism analysis, English-language Irish poetry