Heroic revivals from Carlyle to Yeats / Geraldine Higgins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higgins, Geraldine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors.

Heroes in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 226 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Geraldine Higgins has written a thoughtful and compelling account of the heroic aesthetic so important to the major authors of the Irish Literary Revival. She examines the heroic ideal as a malleable weapon by which many different ideas could be advanced in the cultural ferment of the years when modern Ireland was in the making, but still, in Yeats's famous phrase, "soft wax." Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Reviving the Irish Hero 11

2 George Russell (AE): The Memory of Race 37

3 J. M. Synge: Out of History into Legend 69

4 W. B. Yeats and Ireland's Hero History 105.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137035622

1137035625

OCLC:

781939872