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Irish Orientalism : a literary and intellectual history / Joseph Lennon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lennon, Joseph (Joseph Allen), author.
- Series:
- Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- Irish studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Irish authors--Oriental influences.
- Oriental literature--Appreciation--Ireland.
- Oriental literature.
- Comparative literature--Irish and Oriental.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--Oriental and Irish.
- Orientalism in literature.
- Orientalism--Ireland.
- Orientalism.
- English literature--Irish authors--Asian influences.
- Exoticism in literature.
- Ireland--Intellectual life.
- Ireland.
- Middle East--In literature.
- Middle East.
- Asia--In literature.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 478 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Irish Orientalism
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- "British writers from Cambrensis to Spenser depicted Ireland as a remote borderland inhabited by wild descendants of Asian Scythians - barbarians to the ancient Greeks. Contemporaneous Irish writers likewise borrowed classical traditions, imagining the Orient as an ancient homeland. Lennon traces the influence of Irish Orientalism through origin legends, philology, antiquarianism, and historiography into Irish literature and culture, exploring the works of Keating, O'Flaherty, Swift, Vallancey, Sheridan, Moore, Croker, Owenson, Mangan, de Vere, and others. He explores a key moment of Irish Orientalism - the twentieth-century, Celtic Revival - discussing the works of Gregory, Casement, Connolly, and Joyce, but focusing on Theosophist writers W.B.
- Yeats, George Russell, James Stephens, and James Cousins."
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Continuity and development
- Origin legends and pseudohistories
- Ogygia: Europe's backyard orient and the rise of antiquarianism
- Allegory and critique: Irish orientialism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature
- Empire, Ireland, and India
- pt. 2. The orientall and the Celt: the syncretism of the revival
- Uniting the circumference: cross-colonialism
- W.B. Yeats's Celtic orient
- Theosophy and the nation: George Russell (AE) and James Stephens
- James, Seuman, and Jayaram Cousins
- Conclusion: was Fu Manchu Celtic? and other scrutable speculations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-457) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815630487
- 0815630484
- Publisher Number:
- heb40280 hdl
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