Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism

by Julie McCormick Weng

Book Overview

Since W. B. Yeats wrote in 1890 that "the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula," the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has often been taken as a given. Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism brings together leading and emerging scholars of Irish modernism to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change. The collection spotlights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815635982
• ISBN13: 9780815635987
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"