The Oxford handbook of W.B. Yeats / edited by Lauren Arrington, Matthew Campbell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arrington, Lauren, 1981- editor.

Campbell, Matthew (Matthew J. B.), editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Yeats, W. B.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Handbook of W.B. Yeats

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

A Handbook devoted to the poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) that examines how his work as a poet, playwright, critic, and public figure in the late 19th through the mid-20th century continues to influence writing in English, Irish, and worldwide Anglophone literatures.

Contents:

Revolution and Counter-Revolution / David Dwan

Ancient Ireland / Geraldine Parsons

Fairy and Folk Tales of Bedford Park / Seán Hewitt

'Never to leave that valley': Sligo / Peter McDonald

A Country Over Wave: Japan, Noh, kyogen / Akiko Manabe

Yeats in Fascist Italy / Lauren Arrington

Asias / Jahan Ramazani

Africa / Nathan Suhr-Sytsma

Planets / Cóilín Parsons

Tradition and Phantasmagoria: Dante and Shakespeare / Hugh Haughton

Among the Victorians / Francis O'Gorman

The Ghost of Parnell / R. F. Foster

Lady Gregory: Patronage, Collaboration, Mythopoeia / Nicholas Grene

Family Business at Dun Emer and Cuala: Collaboration, Contention, and Creativity / Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux

The Writings of Jack Yeats / Nicholas Allen

W. B. Yeats, John Quinn, and the Literary Marketplace / Joseph Hassett

Dance / Susan Jones

Yeatsian Masculinities / Lucy McDiarmid

Tagore, Pound, and World English / Justin Quinn

George Yeats / Margaret Mills Harper

Rites and Rhymes / Claire Nally

Modernist Accommodations / Tom Walker

Romanticism and Aestheticism / Charles Armstrong

Early Plays: Gender, Genre, and Queer Collaboration / Susan Cannon Harris

Yeats's Visionary Poetics / Neil Mann

Yeats's Visionary Comedy / Matthew Campbell

Late Style / Wayne K. Chapman

Imperfect Forms / Stephanie Burt

Self-Making / Claire Lynch

Illustrating Yeats / Jack Quin

Editing Yeats / Warwick Gould

Talking Back to History: From 'September 1913' to 'Easter, 1916' / Geraldine Higgins

Playing Yeats / Patrick Lonergan

Yeats in the Media / Emilie Morin

Yeats and Contemporary Poetry: Twelve Speculative Takes / Vona Groarke

Yeats and Renaissance Italy: 'Courtly images' / Edna Longley

Reading the Late Plays: Sexual Unorthodoxies / Zsuzsanna Balázs

'Knights of the Air': Yeats, Flight and Modernity / Fran Brearton

'Cast a cold eye': Death in Wartime / Adam Piette

The Scientific Revolution / Katherine Ebury

W. B. Yeats: The Senate and the Stage / Adam Hanna

The 1930s: 'That Day Brings Round the Night' / Alan Gillis.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 18, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191882593

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.