Strange Country
Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790
ISBN13: 9780198184904ISBN10: 0198184905
Paperback,
280 pages
Apr 1999,
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Description
This book identifies the origin, the development and, ultimately, the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literatures that is both national and colonial. It demonstrates the remarkable relationships between works as diverse as Joyce's Dubliners and Bram Stoker's Dracula , and the worlds of the French Revolution and the Irish famine. Deane also shows how almost all the activities of Irish print culture--novels, songs, typefaces, historical analyses, poems--struggle within the limits imposed by its inheritance.Reviews
"Strange Country may be Deane's finest book yet; for anyone interested in Irish literary and cultural studies, it is indispensable."--MLN
About the Author(s)
Seamus Deane is Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
