Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination

by PATTEN and Eve Patten

This book asks how English authors of the early to mid twentieth-century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work, and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and aspirations within, England itself. Drawing predominantly on novels of this period, but also on letters, travelogues, literary criticism, and memoir, it illustrates how Irish affairs provided a marginal but pervasive point of reference...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198869169
• ISBN13: 9780198869160
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"