The Anglo-Irish literary renaissance that flowered between Edmund Burke's last years and the generation of Yeats and Joyce had close ties to European Romanticism and was a critical force in the development of modernist literature in the origins of Protestant Ascendancy ideology in the alarm of the 1790's, McCormack traces its cultural significance through an examination of a number of central texts and concepts. Beginning with Burke's correspondence and Reflections , McCormack goes on to discuss Maria Edgeworth's fiction, ...
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The Anglo-Irish literary renaissance that flowered between Edmund Burke's last years and the generation of Yeats and Joyce had close ties to European Romanticism and was a critical force in the development of modernist literature in the origins of Protestant Ascendancy ideology in the alarm of the 1790's, McCormack traces its cultural significance through an examination of a number of central texts and concepts. Beginning with Burke's correspondence and Reflections , McCormack goes on to discuss Maria Edgeworth's fiction, the political vocabulary of T.D. Gregg and E.W. Gladstone, Celticism, the drama and poetry of Teats, and Joyce's oeuvre as a whole. A wider European context is provided by reference to Wordsworth, Chateaubriand, and an excursion through a critical period in Irish cultural history asking why it was that the late 19th century should have been a time of such prolific literary achievements and examining the part played by the Protestant Ascendancy on the one hand, and the force of tradition on the other.
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Reader copy. Ex-library hardback with dust jacket in protective sleeve; usual library stamps/markings, 423pp, published 1985 by Clarendon Press, isbn0198128061, this is a wide-ranging, detailed & combative book, spine of DJ sunned otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 17G*
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 423 p. Audience: General/trade. Oxford University, 1985, 423 pages, hardcover in a very good jacket, no owner's mark, light wear, a few margin marks or underlines
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1985 McCormack, WJ ASCENDANCY AND TRADITION IN ANGLO-IRISH LITERARY HISTORY FROM 1789 TO 1939 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985 fine hardcover in fine d/j.
