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Yeats's nations : gender, class, and Irishness / Marjorie Howes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howes, Marjorie Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Political and social views.
- Yeats, W. B.
- Politics and literature--Ireland--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Politics and literature--Ireland--History--19th century.
- National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
- Nationalism--Ireland--Historiography.
- Nationalism.
- Social classes in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Ireland--In literature.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Yeats, it has been claimed, invented a country and called it Ireland. In his plays, poetry and prose, the Anglo-Irish aristocrat and the rural Gaelic peasant combine to form a new community founded on custom and ceremony. Marjorie Howes's 1996 study attempts to examine Yeats's continuous search for political origins and cultural traditions through theoretical work on literature, gender and nationalism in post-colonial cultures. She explores the complex, often contradictory, ways Yeats's politics are refracted through his writing and shows how his enthusiastic advocacy of the concept of nationality often clashed with his distaste for the dominant, often exclusive, forms of Irish identity surrounding him. For every public proclamation on national destiny, there is an intensely private scrutiny of his own sexual identity. Howes places Yeats at the centre of debates on nationalism and gender that currently occupy critics in post-colonial studies. Her study will be of interest to all interested in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and the relationship between nationalism and sexuality.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-511-58193-9
- 0-511-00075-8
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