Authors: Vivian Mercier, Eilis Dillon (Editor), Eilis Dillon
ISBN-13: 9780198120742, ISBN-10: 0198120745
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: June 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)
University of California, Santa Barbara
Modern Irish Literature marks the culmination of the lifetime interest of the distinguished scholar Vivian Mercier (1919-89) in the influence of Gaelic literature on modern Irish writing. Building on the insights developed in his classic The Irish Comic Tradition, Mercier's focus here is on the research of nineteenth-century scholars which gave rise to the revival of Irish literature in English. Separate chapters analyzing the work of writers including Bernard Shaw, Yeats, Synge, Joyce, and Beckett build to provide a fresh and timely picture of Irish literary tradition. Informed by a wealth and diversity of scholarship, and written in a highly accessible style, this book is a major contribution to the study of Irish literature.
Introduction | ||
1 | The Rediscovery of the Gaelic Past | 1 |
2 | Irish Writers and English Readers: Literature and Politics 1798-1845 | 35 |
3 | Evangelical Revival in the Church of Ireland, 1800-69 | 64 |
4 | The Revival Begins | 86 |
5 | Bernard Shaw: Irish International | 110 |
6 | W. B. Yeats: Master Craftsman | 157 |
7 | John Millington Synge: Devil or Saint? | 202 |
8 | James Joyce: Creating Ulysses | 242 |
9 | 'All That Fall': Samuel Beckett and the Bible | 312 |
10 | European-Irish Literary Connections in the Twentieth Century | 327 |
Appendix: Published Works of Vivian Mercier | 345 | |
Select Bibliography | 355 | |
Index | 361 |