Exile, emigration and Irish writing / Patrick Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Patrick, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors.

Exiles' writings, English--Irish authors--History and criticism.

Exiles' writings, English.

Immigrants' writings, English--Irish authors--History and criticism.

Immigrants' writings, English.

Irish--Foreign countries.

History.

Irish.

Authors, Irish.

Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History.

Ireland.

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Irish--Foreign countries--History.

Immigrants in literature.

Exiles in literature.

Home in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 298 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2002.

Contents:

1 The Concept of Exile: Critical Constructions 1

2 Exile in the Irish Language Tradition and in the English Language Tradition prior to the Famine 27

3 Nationalist Constructions: Famine and Fenianism; Feelings and Forms 91

4 Holy Ireland: Constructions, Omissions, Evasions, Resistance 132

5 Exile, Art and Alienation: George Moore's Irish Writings 182

6 The Exiles Write Back: Artists, Escape, Representations and Exilic Studies 232.

Notes:

Based on the author's doctoral thesis (University College Dublin).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-287) and index.

ISBN:

0716526581

OCLC:

44676062