A history of the Irish novel [electronic resource] / Derek Hand.
Hand, Derek.
2011
PR8797 .H36 2011eb
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Title
A history of the Irish novel [electronic resource] / Derek Hand.
Author
Hand, Derek.
ISBN
9781139045186 (electronic bk.)
9780521855402
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 341 p.)
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PR8797 .H36 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.009/9415
Summary
"While some literary critics have traced the origins of the novel back to ancient Greece, the modern novel as an access to the narratives of bourgeois modernity emerged into Western culture in the late seventeenth century. The struggle of that class toward definition and the striving to articulate its character is central to the novel and the stories it tells. Its novelty is found in a formlessness that nonetheless aspires to some idea of order and unity. Indeed, the energies of the early modern novel form can be discerned in its constant assertion of narratives that enact that search for completeness while also allowing for a kind of mourning for the security that older, traditional forms and stories allowed. Thus, novelists, then as now, revel in the possibilities that formal innovation permits while their characters find themselves forced to acknowledge the newness of their world and their experiences in that world"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: a history of the Irish novel: 1665-2010
Interchapter: Virtue Rewarded, or The Irish Princess: burgeoning silence and the new novel form in Ireland
1. Beginnings and endings: writing from the margins, 1665-1800
Interchapter: beyond history: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent
2. Speak not my name or, the wings of Minerva: Irish fiction, 1800-1891
Interchapter: Edith Somerville and Martin Ross's The Real Charlotte: the blooming menagerie
3. Living in a time of epic: the Irish novel and literary revival and revolution, 1891-1922
Interchapter: James Joyce's Ulysses: choosing life
4. Irish independence and the bureaucratic imagination: 1922-1939
Interchapter: Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and the art of betrayal
5. Enervated island: isolated Ireland? 1940-1960
Interchapter: John Banville's Doctor Copernicus: a revolution in the head
6. The struggle of making it new, 1960-1979
Interchapter: Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and the rebel act of interpretation
7. Brave new worlds: Celtic tigers and moving statues: 1979 to the present day
Interchapter: John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun: saying the very last things
Conclusion: the future of the Irish novel in the global literary marketplace
Bibliography.

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