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Public works : infrastructure, Irish modernism, and the postcolonial / Michael Rubenstein.

Van Pelt Library PR8755 .R83 2010
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rubenstein, Michael, 1971-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
English literature.
English literature--Irish authors.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Public utilities in literature.
Infrastructure (Economics) in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.
Modernism (Literature).
Ireland.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Physical Description:
viii, 261 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2010]
Contents:
The postcolonial comedy of development: public works and Irish modernism
Aquacity: plumbing consciousness in Joyce's Dublin
A fountain of nationality: haunted infrastructure in Flann O'Brien's The third policeman
Electrifiction, or dramatizing power: the Shannon scheme, the free state, and Denis Johnston's The moon in the yellow river
Other rough beasts: comparative postcolonialism and the dream of infrastructure.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780268040307
0268040303
OCLC:
644018249

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