Farming in Modern Irish Literature

by Nicholas Grene

This innovative study analyzes the range of representation of farming in Irish literature in the period since independence/partition in 1922, as Ireland moved from a largely agricultural to a developed urban society. In many different forms including poetry, drama, fiction, and autobiography, writers have made literary capital by looking back at their rural backgrounds, even where those may be a generation back. The first five chapters examine some...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019886129X
• ISBN13: 9780198861294
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"