Irish Literature the Nineteenth Century Volume II: An Annotated Anthology

By: A. Norman Jeffares

Book Overview

The second of the three volumes, roughly spans the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a period dominated by the enormity of the Great Famine. Its terror is recorded in first-hand accounts and in the powerless yet forceful reactions which this cataclysmic event engendered in such writers as John Mitchel (who in his Jail Journal pits the self against the state). This volume documents the rise of cultural nationalism, in the work of the contributors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716533340
• ISBN13: 9780716533344
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"