The Cambridge companion to the Irish novel, edited by John Wilson Foster
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The Cambridge companion to the Irish novel, edited by John Wilson Foster
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The Cambridge companion to the Irish novel
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
70764862
Responsibility statement
edited by John Wilson Foster
Review
"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 subgenres and allied narrative forms, establishing significant social and political contexts for dozens of novels."--BOOK JACKET
Series statement
Cambridge companions to literature
Table Of 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
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Irish novel