The Cambridge companion to the Irish novel / edited by John Wilson Foster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foster, John Wilson, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual works, accounts of important novelists, and histories of sub-genres and allied narrative forms, establishing significant social and political contexts for dozens of novels. The varied perspectives and emphases by more than a dozen critics and literary historians ensure that the Irish novel receives due tribute for its colour, variety and linguistic verve. Each chapter features recommended further reading. This is the perfect overview for students of the Irish novel from the romances of the seventeenth century to the present day.

Contents:

Introduction / John Wilson Foster

The novel before 1800 / Aileen Douglas

The national tale and allied genres, 1770s-1840s / Miranda Burgess

The novel of the big house / Vera Kreilkamp

The gothic novel / Siobhán Kilfeather

Catholics and fiction during the Union, 1801-1922 / James H. Murphy

Irish modernisms, 1880-1930 / Adrian Frazier

James Joyce / Bruce Stewart

Region, realism and reaction, 1922-1972 / Norman Vance

The novel in Irish / Alan Titley

Women novelists, 1930s-1960s / Ann Owens Weekes

Two post-modern novelists : Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien / Terence Brown

Life writing in the twentieth century / Elizabeth Grubgeld

The novel and the northern troubles / Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

Contemporary Irish fiction / Eve Patten.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

ISBN:

1-139-81762-0

1-139-00121-3