Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House

by Vera Kreilkamp

This book is a comprehensive study of the ascendancy novel from Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (I800) through contemporary reinventions of the form. Kreilkamp argues that Irish fiction needs to be rescued from the critical assumptions underlying attacks on the historical mythologies of Yeats and the Literary Revival.

Exploring the uniquely Irish dimensions of colonial and post-colonial societies, Kreilkamp charts the self-critical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815627521
• ISBN13: 9780815627524
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"